Scary Stories For A Long, Cold, And Spooky Night

so Julia and I are both women in our early 20s and we were out camping in a remote area of Montana that isn't super popular but it's fairly popular amongst locals who Camp a lot like we do which meant that it wasn't super unusual when we saw a group of three guys who look to be a little bit older than us strive past our camp about an hour and a half after we set up our chairs and table we just assumed that they were searching for a good spot to camp too but then when the

car was still in our sight through the trees we saw a turn around and as it was driving back we both noticed one of the guys sticking his phone out the window and seemed to be recording us both of us thought that it was really weird and I walked a bit closer to take a picture of their license plate as a bit of a safety measure but when I got closer I saw that the back plate had all the numbers covered with black paint Julia and I both got bad vibes from this but both of

us are aware that men are creeps towards women all the time and both of us are prepared with bear spray because Montana is grizzly bear country so we decided that it wasn't a weird enough interaction to pack our stuff up and find a different spot instead we just decided to put up an empty tent outside and sleep in my car instead to trick people into thinking that we were sleeping in the tent if they tried to attack us so later that night when both of us were sleeping in my car we heard branches rustling and

snapping outside by the empty tent despite the fact that it wasn't windy originally we assumed it was a bear trying to climb up to the bear hang with our food and sented hygiene products but then we heard male voices outside and I lifted my head up to the window and saw the same car that passed us earlier I got off the air mattress on top of the back row of seats that we put down to make an area for us to sleep and locked the doors individually so my car wouldn't make a beeping noise Julia

and I stayed still and hoped that the men would leave for a while we heard them talking but it was hard to make out what they said from inside the car obviously but eventually we heard more rustling and branches snapping which made us think that they were trying to steal something from the bear hang which was weird but neither of us wanted to actually look out the window and in case one of them spotted us eventually we heard the car leave which was a huge relief but we were too freaked out to actually leave the

car until it was light outside and campers nearby would be waking up when I got out though nothing could have prepared me for what I saw above our tent the men had hung a dead deer that was obviously killed recently here because it was leaking blood everywhere on top of our tent the internal organs were ripped out and its limbs were cut off and laid out in a circle around the tent this is obviously messed up on its own but hunting permits aren't even being sold right now which means that the deer was killed illegally

to do whatever it is that those guys did as soon as we processed what we were looking at Julia and I freaked out and drove away without taking down our camp once we were in a service area jul called the police and Forest Service to report what had happened while I drove home the forest service was nice enough to get our stuff for us but honestly I I don't even want mine back in case that there's some weird curse on it or something the police are looking into it to charge a fine for killing Wild

game during the off season but as far as I know what they did to us technically isn't IL legal it's just really really creepy I haven't heard of anything like this before but if you have then please do let me know I'm very curious and sort of very spooked at the same time and I mean I love camping so much but after this I just don't know if I can camp for well a long [Music] time so I've got a hobby carpentry shop Furniture bows canoes Etc I don't know it keeps me out of the

bar but a local guy at my shotgun range is a furniture restoration business too we got to talking one day and he said that he had Decades of abandoned material stuff where people dropped it off and decided it wasn't worth paying to chemically strip and refinish sort of thing basically buddy has heaps of miled hardwood taking up space and he would be happy to give it to me for free he's a bit of a weird guy I'll admit sort of quiet and just had a keep to himself thing going on mostly you he didn't typically

do small talk but occasionally He restored some people's gun stock so he was known about the place but materials they are not cheap when you're just being a hobby sort of guy and I don't mind rilling stuff at all so I go down to the shop and first thing that I noticed is that he and his coworker there were no projects on the go in his shop were visibly upset that I brought some buddies to help me here I also noticed that the front office or Lobby is a cramped Affair full of Taxidermy which isn't

too much of a red flag I suppose I mean I met this guy at a gun range after all but once you go into the back there was a lot of stuff that progressively made my eyebrows go a little further up my face buddy does chemical stripping of furniture so he's got several chemical Vats or buckets that you can fit a full-size couch into I know what stripping chemical smells like smells like blue if anyone's wondering but there was definitely another smell to the room sort of rank and musty big chains from the ceiling which

I guess could be for picking up the furniture pieces all this material that he's got for me is an azine so up I go for some good oldfashioned garbage pile diving there's two major rooms in the mezzanine one is full of his materials that he's giving me just dozens of old hardwood tables and chairs Etc in fact I got some really nice old oak pews for my trouble hundreds of board feed of old 2-in thick Oak which was a real school W the other room though was maybe I don't know a showroom but this showroom

it clearly hadn't been touched in years and had some pretty uh interesting things going on in it like there was a rocking chair covered in dust an empty wirebird cage that could have been 100 years old and a large bookcase packed full of Christian books no carpentry or furniture books anywhere it had several picture frames with what could have been Family Photos lots of young or smiling children which just gave a little bit of a creepy movie vibe to it I guess but the real Clincher was that I noticed footprints in the dust that walked

into the wall behind the showroom door and behind the door to the showroom was a door door that had been cut into the drywall and was heavily padlocked from the outside the showroom side that is so basically you couldn't see this door cut into the wall when you were in the showroom while the showroom door was open unless you were quite close to the wall because if you were in the showroom the door covered this wall portal I also learned out on my way out that day that this guy doesn't have a smartphone either instead

he's got a no GPS phone a creepy looking Dusty grandmother's suit full of heavily religious literature and a secret room in the wall locked from the outside and massive chemical Vats in his Workshop that smell a little bit organic and was really grumpy that I didn't show up alone he did still let me loot his garbage pile though which I was thankful for but still I scored big that day I'll admit probably took home enough stuff to Mill into about 7 or 10K worth of hardwood boards but I was really really glad that I went

there with two other people to help me load material that day we made Buffalo Bill jokes the whole way home and I haven't seen him since he hasn't been to the range in 2 years now which is sort of odd too but I don't know something was off about that place and that guy and I'll never go back there I would like to preface this by stating that the following is not creative writing by any means this is a story that I was originally told secondhand by my mother but confirmed by my grandfather when I

was about maybe 14 to 15 I leave it to you to form your own opinion obviously or to debunk it or whatever regardless this story has always stuck with me my whole life so a bit of background my grandfather passed away back in 2013 from cancer but in his lifetime he was a decent guy who helped a lot of people in various ways after he met my grandmother they both joined the army and they served in Japanese based US Army hospitals during the Vietnam conflict helping to save a lot of people after his time with

the Army he also joined the Air Force for a stint this all helped him to get his Nursing degree and became an an EA after the Air Force he became a clergyman at their church and years later he would become a Russian Orthodox priest for over 40 years he served as a priest too and by the way just for reference in most sects of Orthodox Christianity they allow clergy to marry unless they were a bishop or hire my grandfather though was the sort of priest that the arch dases would call up and say father we

have these people in Alabama they're Believers but they have No Church in like 100 miles that they can attend will you go there and help organize something then what would start as people holding liturgy in somebody else's living room with like two dozen people would become a full-on church eventually he repeated that more times than I've ever gotten a straight answer on by the way the only thing that I thought that he was not so great for was always putting the church before his wife and three kids anyway it was the mid '70s and my

grandfather had moved my mom my aunt and my grandmother to New Jersey to help one of these struggling churches that were without a priest my mom she was about 5 or six at that time and she remembers this point in time pretty well too one day my grandfather was contacted by his Bishop who told him that his assistance was needed with something very serious he told my grandfather that there is this young girl 17 years old she's a gypsy and her family brought her to the monastery Club claiming that she was apparently possessed the monks

there tell me that they believe this to be serious too will you go there to help them now my grandfather had been a priest for several years by that point but understand that most priests who serve their entire lives are never asked to help exercise a demon actually the Roman Catholics require special permission from the Vatican to perform any exorcism rights but he agreed without knowing what he was walking into the story that I was told about the girl was that her name was Juliana and her family were gypsies or Travelers she had come from

a family that was heavily involved in Ault practices which shouldn't surprise anyone familiar with that culture but Juliana was married to a man from another family in their Clan I don't know much about him besides that he was a bit older than her and he also practiced a lot of magic Juliana's family started becoming concerned when she started acting different she was very moody aggressive wrathful in fact and just straight up mean as time went on her fits would get worse and she would scream hurtful things at people for being asked simple things but the

family was terrified when the Caravan that they lived in would rattle rise up off the ground a few feet and drop to the ground and even on many occasions seeing things fly off the wall or out of cupboards and break against the wall they obviously tried their own rights and rituals to cleanse whatever Darkness they believed was possessing Juliana but nothing had worked so that's when they turned to this Monastery Desperately Seeking help and this is where Grandpa gets involved he said that when he got there everyone was in the church another priest and a

handful of monks all preparing holy water oils saying prayers for help with God's strength in the back of the church were several curious lay people that live and help work on the monastery grounds and then there were a bunch of Juliana's family I guess they had her in room with a few family members until they were ready but they bring her in sit her on a chair in front of the Altar and this is where my grandfather said that he felt the air get thicker and she seemed really ticked off and was just sort of

talking nothing laughing and spitting trying to scratch and kick they had a few people restraining her as she started getting violent they semi surround her and they began praying and performing The full-on Exorcism right as they progressed she began growling and this was when he said that things started happening the chairs in the church they began rattling and shaking then moving on their own before levitating off of the floor those curious people and even some of Juliana's family were so scared that they ran out of the church he said that they continued praying and repeating

the prayers over and over for several hours as things continued to erratically move on their own and Juliana continued to curse them and their God spit and scratch and Target each person and try to get into their head and break their concentration but they continued praying and asking God and every sa that they could think of to help them banish this thing back to where it had come from and to leave this girl alone then she suddenly sat back rigidly and swung her head back then her face began to contort and take on this inhuman

shape while her mouth opened wider than a human's mouth could really expand without completely separating the Jawbone that is and then a voice came from within her and in this deep growly sort of loud demonic voice said leave me alone I'm happy with her but this voice it didn't speak in English or in any other commonly spoken language it spoke in a bit of a dead language that is native to the region of Romania and the Steeps of Russia it was a Slavic language the monks knew this language though because many old church manuscripts are

written in this nearly ancient language this moment though it frightened everyone in the room but they knew that they couldn't stop now not long after though Juliana she passed out she was unconscious and they couldn't wake her for a moment she was breathing but she was definitely in rough shape so they brought her to the hospital at this point and she was stable but wouldn't wake up and then she was under for about 2 weeks she woke up one day and she was really confused she didn't understand why she was in the hospital she had

no memory of the exorcism at all in fact she couldn't remember the last year and a half of her life the very last thing that she could remember was being in her trailer she said I was sitting at the table while my husband slept in our bed when I noticed something from the corner of my eye I turned and I see my husband sleeping on his back but there was this black cloud that was flowing out of his mouth and hovering above him in bed and before I could scream this black cloud rushed at me

and well now I'm here I think my grandfather was changed forever after that night my mom tells me that she was seven or so at the time and she remembers that her father didn't speak for at least a couple of weeks and he wore this sort of somber look on his face he would move on eventually but it definitely had a lasting impression my mom says that he didn't tell her the story until she was a teenager um and he was trying to warn her off of dabbling in the occult as you never know what

you're inviting in my grandfather he wasn't the kind of guy that liked to make up stories at all actually he liked to call people out for embellishment a lot he usually didn't have a lot to say too unless you asked him about something he was a very intelligent man though and read a lot he also traveled across the US and had been to various countries over his lifetime he served in two branches of the military and had a career as a medical professional and I'd say that he has some level of credibility at least in

spite of the fact too that I come from a religious family and growing up I went to church pretty regularly I am not a religious person by any means I've studied a good number of various belief systems and I don't subscribe to any single one so this isn't like a Christian rant or trash talking gypsies or whatever I actually have a lot of respect for their Heritage but I just wanted to share a paranormal story that would never be heard if it wasn't for this platform and so I now hand it over to you guys

for any comments questions opinions theories and also any wellth thought out jokes in 1982 I and six buddies went be hunting in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan we stayed at cabins near Twin Lakes at the base of the kiano peninsula now when you hunt most gritters you go out before Dawn and sit until an hour or two after the sun comes up and late afternoon until dark most bigger game animals hunker down during the daylight hours so it doesn't pay to sit there all day and this means that you have a lot of time between

hunts now this part of the upper B P insula has some remote areas it is also where a lot of copper mining went on in the old days the mines are all closed now obviously and mostly for the water but there are a lot of big paper mill Holdings there also that are still being logged so there's a lot of logging roads built up by the paper mills they are good enough roads for large Double trailer log trucks filled with many tons of logs to travel on one thing that you learn quickly when you use

these roads is to get the heck off thead Road when a truck is coming down because they take up the whole Road and they don't even slow down for civilians because the mill owns the roads not the state or the county and you're on their land technically but as long as you don't get in their way then they don't care most of the bridges across streams or Rivers just consist of huge piles of large rocks with smaller gravel on top of the road these things look like dams to be honest but because of the large

bottom rocks the water can flow through the bridge genuinely it's a pretty cool thing to see we spend a lot of time driving and exploring those logging roads too on one particular day we went down a new road that led to an actual state park at the bottom of misery Bay on Lake Superior it's a park maintained by the state on paper mill property there are several very rustic sort of campsites at the park and we spent most of the time at the park and just messing around on the beach really here at about noon

we headed back down a different Road it's around this time too that you see a lot of small Shacks that usually have smoke coming out of the chimneys they're apparently used by the loggers I think we eventually ended up way out in the wilderness with no signs of logging or logging trucks anywhere it's a bit like driving in a tunnel in fact because the trees come together over the road here but after a long while we came into a clear area and then around a Bend We Came Upon what we thought was a small town

the road basically went right down to Main Street and as we drove through the place it became apparent that there were no people to be seen we came to a building that was kind of a store I guess so we stopped there the store was completely empty looking in the dusty Windows you could see that it had been empty for a long time we walked around the Main Street checking out the houses a lot of them were in pretty good repair but they were completely deserted dust on the floors had been undisturbed for many years

and there were no signs of foot traffic anywhere we eventually got back into the trucks and moved on we were all pretty intrigued by the town but we didn't go into any of the houses because well it just sort of looked like the owners might actually come back at any point the Main Street it went up a pretty big hill and at the top of the hill was a large building that was obviously some kind of industrial use building covered in that old sort of galvanized corrugated metal sheeting we stopped at the building and found

an opening in the siding the inside of the building was wide open and it was very tall like 30 to 40 ft tall with a lot of supporting steel work everything was pretty Rusty and obviously hadn't been touched in many years there were large windows with no glass just sort of open to the outside high up in the walls that allowed the sun to light it up pretty well inside at the center of the place there was a large hole in the floor though like 15 to 20 ft Square we peered down into the opening

and it was a a really deep and dark hole somebody dropped a stone down the hole and it was a long time before you could hear a faint splash of water so we dropped another Stone and we had a couple of those old Casio watches with a stopwatch function so we dropped the Rock and timed it to the Splash and it took almost exactly 10 seconds there were no guard rails mind you or safety measures of any kind here and it was pretty scary thinking about falling into that deep black hole there was also some

old equipment left there that looked to be like turn of the century type stuff we assumed it was a closed copper mine but the whole time we were exploring we had two 35mm film cameras taking a lot of pictures this was 30 years before cell phones and 35 to 40 before smartphones after exploring the place for a while we decided that it was time to get going because we only had a few hours before dark now after miles of running down those unmarked roads we eventually made it back to the cabins we all went to

our hunting spots and after a got dark we all headed back to the local bar where we usually went to get something to eat one of the guys asked the lady bartender if she knew anything about that shutdown mine in abandoned town and she got a kind of funny look on her face and went to the kitchen pass through window and said hey Dave these guys went and visited Peterson we all looked at each other like what the heck is she talking about the kitchen door opened up and then a cook apparently called Dave came

out dressed in typical bar cook clothes Dave came over and said what did you see in Peterson we said first of all we never saw a sign with a name on it but it was just an abandoned town and pretty decent looking buildings and a closed down copper mine up on the hill Dave then said yep that's Peterson some people see signs going into town and some don't the thing is is that there never was a Peterson it never existed we were like what are you talking about I mean we were there looked into the

buildings dropped rocks down the empty Min shaft and even took many pictures Dave then said yep you and many other people but if you try to return I guarantee you won't find it we were like what we know the road that we took we could get back there easily man and he said go ahead and try you won't find it Dave also asked if we by any chance dropped a rock in the hole and timed it to the bottom and yes actually we did and it took almost exactly 10 seconds like we said Dave then

said I did too and I looked it up a falling rock or anything really falls about 400 ft in 10 seconds he then said that Peterson is a real ghost town the whole place is a real ghost town he said he said that he was there and saw the same things years ago apparently he' tried many times to go back and he'd never been able to find it him and a lot of other people who lived in this area and know it like the backs of their hands have seen it once and once only never

being able to find it again Dave said to go to huon Hancock and to get our film developed and to let him see the pictures so the next day we decided to take off from hunting and go up to town and get the film developed hanok is home to Michigan Tech so it's a college town with all the amenities and it had a quick film developer place so we dropped the film off and went to see the SES it's a really picturesque place too and I highly recommend recommend you go and check it out if

you ever get the chance anyway about an hour Northeast of hancok is Coppa Harbor at the very top of Michigan where it ends into Lake Superior it's a really cool place and when we got back to hancok we were dying to see the pictures so we went and got the film and tore open the envelopes but there were a lot of pictures beautiful pictures but weirdly not a single picture of Peterson we were thinking hold up wait a minute this is impossible so a couple of guys went back to the film place and asked where

the other pictures that were on those rolls were but in the end there were no other pictures we had all the negatives they don't keep other people's pictures apparently and they see thousands every month now there's a park in town and we stopped there and all sat at that table just kind of in shock really not saying much for quite a while in 1982 I was 23 years old and at 23 you think you know it all but when you're hit Square in the face by something like that it shook me to the core everything

that you think you know is now suspect because I mean we were in that abandoned Town it was just a a cool old abandoned town I saw it with my own eyes in the wide open Sunny broad daylight not on some dark foggy creepy night nothing creepy happened but we took those pictures pictures that apparently don't exist well that changed my life from that point forward after that we went back to see Dave and gave him the stack of pictures of the Woods The Big Mac Bridge misery Bay the park on the bay logging trucks

the rock bridges some of the Shacks one of which was just about 2 miles from Peterson Dave just kind of chuckled and said yep that's our Peterson all right for the next two days we totally forgot about hunting we split up into two trucks and we drove those roads over and over and over again and we never refound Peterson years ago I was in rehab for drug addiction I did 5 months in rehab then 6 months of sober living following that this occurred the last few weeks of being in rehab before going to sober living

now I met hundreds of addicts in fact new people would come and go on a daily basis a lot of these people were much worse off than others and everyone was in for different things a lot of these people that came in also had a plethora of mental health issues and mental illnesses severe depression PTSD bipolar disorder and many others but I'll never forget the day that Mike a 30 to 40-year-old male was admitted a lot of the tchs that worked at the rehab informed all of the patience about Mike and his condition he had

a case of severe schizophrenia and would constantly be talking to no one he would get really agitated and upset at times at these voices and would often yell and have a panic attack it was very sad to be honest and it wasn't like this would happen sometimes this was ongoing like a 24/7 problem that unfortunately Mike had to deal with the rehab was situated in an old Motel like complex except it was much much nicer like a fancy hotel girls acoss the street and identical buildings everyone was assigned to a specific room with two to

three other patients and when Mike showed up he was placed in the unit that I was in I introduced myself to him and shook his hand he seemed so timid and nervous but I gave a rundown of how things work and a rough daily schedule for our program I showed him his room and I told him not to hesitate to ask me for anything before I walked away I told him Mike we're all in here for our own reasons I just want you to know that there's no judgment whatsoever on my end and that no

matter what you may be dealing with you can come to me and confide in me for anything you like man he partially grinned at that and nodded at me and that was the last time that we spoke for the two weeks that he was there now that evening I was watching TV in the living room of our unit when I heard him start aggressive talking to himself the strange thing is that it literally sounded like he was having a legit conversation I heard him say don't say that shut up and then 5 seconds later he

said I'm not going to do that leave me alone and then a few seconds after that get out of here this was expected because I was informed of his condition but hearing him have an episode The First Time made me feel well really bad for him but then things took a very odd turn over the following days a few days after Mike was placed in my unit I woke up one morning to go make some coffee I was in the kitchen and Mike's room was down the hallway I was pulling out a coffee filter when

I heard clear as day what are you doing I turned around expecting to see Mike but no one was there then I hear Mike all the way from from the room scream ah get out of here I was very very confused and didn't know what to make of it and kind of just Shrugged it off I was pretty alarmed by this though but things kept happening it was later in the week when I was in the living room watching TV again when I heard Mike having another conversation with himself but this time I could distinctly

hear a second voice I thought to myself does he have a split personality and is having a conversation between himself and his other self the other voice was so much different and I kept telling myself Mike's just really really good at imitating other voices or something I turn the volume down on the TV so that I could hear more of this conversation Mike says I told you no I'm not going to do that leave me alone please the other voice responds just go and do what I tell you it's for the best Mike responds no

that's bad I won't do it the other voice then responds go to the kitchen and get the knife now then Mike let out a huge scream of Despair I sat there on that couch in just disbelief my brain couldn't comprehend what I was hearing or what was happening I suddenly got a a huge sense of dread that came over me and I got up and started started making my way to his door to check on him and as I got closer the conversation was becoming much more Audible and clear to hear there were two people

in that room I was certain of it and nothing is ever going to change my mind about that as I heard the other voice trying to persuade Mike again I knocked on his door and the voice stopped immediately I opened the door to tell Mike that I heard him scream and wanted to see if he was okay it was just him sitting on the chair with his head in his hands like he just got some really bad news he looked up at me and said I'm fine thanks please shut the door I immediately went to

our head nurse and explained to her that Mike was saying some pretty scary things and that I was in fear of my life being in the same room as him I mentioned to her hearing him talk to himself about a knife and that was all it took for them to take Mike and relocate to somewhere else where he could get the help that he needed to this day I think about this experience that I had with Mike and try to find a reasonable explanation for what happened and what I heard I've never heard voices or

had hallucinations at any other point I've been clean of drugs for years now but this was just an experience that I had that has made me question reality and everything everything honestly I I feel like he didn't have schizophrenia but that maybe he was possessed I think about this often and I still cannot come to terms with it I guess I I want closure about it and it's just something that I'll probably never get so that's my story and if you've listened to everything well then thanks this is probably the weirdest paranormal or unexplainable experience

that I've had other than feeling someone poke their finger in my back when laying on my side in the bed this one pretty much tops it I work swing shifts so when I get home from work everyone is usually asleep I usually watch some TV to unwind before going to bed and because of that I always make sure the bedroom doors are closed so I don't wake up my wife and kids now when I got home one evening I noticed the master bedroom door was closed but not latched so I figured that that should be

fine but a few minutes later I hear P coming from the master bedroom I look and now the door is a jar enough to stick your head out I figured the wife is feeling frisky so I jump up and walk into the bedroom but she is in bed covered up and I'm thinking ah she's pretending to be asleep I climb in bed and tell her to stop playing she wakes up though and I could tell that she wasn't pretending we've been married a long time now so I know how she is when she wakes up

long story short I explain to her what happened and she's weirded out like I was genuinely it made my skin crawl and it was hard to fall asleep that night ever since that night I randomly feel something around me too like the hair on my neck will stand up I feel like I'm being [Music] watched I was your typical kid growing up in a lower to middle class household we had a decent older house in the suburbs and Mom and Dad were always working this was the 80s so my brother and I were often home

alone or over at a friend's house our parents they were pretty negligent in many ways but this is also sort of how things just were back then now I remember knowing something was deeply deeply wrong with our home as early as I could form memories or sense the world around me I was afraid of ghosts and monsters under the bed or in my closet like every every other kid you know things that obviously weren't real and just some Primal monkey brain Remnant that kids work through as they get older but there was a distinct difference

between these imagined monsters and the very real ones that I would encounter over the next few years my mother's father was still alive when this all started he bought me a blue and white fighter jet which I hung from the ceiling in my bedroom above my bed sometimes wind would come in through the window and turn it a few spins counterclockwise then it would spin clockwise and come back to rest and be still I remember observing just how it would eventually come to rest it never spun much but I like to imagine it screaming through

the sky and sort of Pew peing all over the place shortly after I installed this thing I would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night for no reason I wasn't scared or startled or really awake for any reason I would stare up at the ceiling trying to go back to sleep every once in a while the jet would Spin and spin and spin faster and faster until it was a blur all in the same direction the first time it happened I thought that it was really weird by the fifth or sixth time this

became genuinely a terrifying event other times it would be spinning at warp speed and suddenly just stop abruptly here as if someone had grabbed it it and held it in place I have a memory of running out of my room screaming and crying over this Grandpa he died the next year that jet meant more to me than it did before obviously I cherished this little treasure but it was terrorizing me and eventually I just had to get rid of it I was in first grade and walking to and from school with my friends I had

a house key which wasn't unusual at the time downstairs we had a living room with a TV and a couch I remember coming home one of these days to watch cartoons on my left side there were slaughtered folding doors that hid the cloth washer and dryer they always spooked me out for some reason like there was someone in there sometimes sitting there just watching me I never saw anyone or heard anything but I could just never shake that feeling in fact I would often run by them and they were a source of fear for me

but I was already taking my own clothes out and putting them away so it wasn't alien or unusual it just very often felt like someone was behind there just sort of watching me I think I was actually watching pin wheel or something similar on TV maybe Lamb Chop I don't know but I remember sitting there once and the left door folded open abruptly like someone tied a rope to it and a car outside and the car I just suddenly took off they weren't on wheels or anything so this scared the Daylights out of me I

cried to my parents about it I was being a baby apparently and it was nothing though until it wasn't you see one day I was sitting there and it opened and shut like this over and over just slamming I wanted to run by to get out but it wasn't safe because something kept slamming it open and slamming it shut I almost want to say I heard laughter but I don't know I don't think I did I was being terrorized though and it stopped and as I ran by it it started up again it scared me

half to death I slammed the door behind me and instantly just ran upstairs things calm down for a few months after that I was in the second grade Mrs Tubman's Home Room I'm a big boy now and I don't get scared or pee in the bed over ghosts that aren't real anymore I'm helping my older brother with yard work and delivering papers now I'm quickly becoming fiercely independent at a young age I get my own key and start walking home alone from school even now we had a Raggedy andle that sat on a rocking chair

in one of the adjacent bedrooms it always creeped me out especially because it used to be in the Attic where I'd see it every time that we got Christmas ornaments out for some reason too my parents parents they brought it down and set it downstairs on this rocking chair I came home one day to watch cartoons and as I go to reach for the handle leading to the basement the door knob suddenly spins someone is on the other side holding it closed naturally it must be my brother he got out earlier than me of course

and he was playing a trick I tried opening the door but it just wouldn't budge it was unlocked or the knob wouldn't turn so I pushed my shoulder into it because I knew I was Stronger than him but it still didn't open I move back to get some speed behind me and go to shoulder it again but the door slowly opens as I'm about to hit it in fact I fly through the open door and stumble into the room with that doll sitting there instead and to my abject horror the rocking chair is moving back

and forth the doll is just a doll obviously but it was as if a person was sitting there I I scream run out and I make it halfway up the stairs I'm losing my mind I mean this can't be real and in the end my parents told me that it wasn't real and they made me go to the school counselor and Coach me to swear that it wasn't real and I was Brave I deliver newspapers and I do yard work I'm a big boy so it can't be real I go back down eventually and peek

my head around the corner the doll is now sitting there facing me with its back against the arm and the chair is still rocking at the same mathematical rhythmic and predictable speed it's just the window though I say my parents had told me this but when I look at the windows they were closed at this I completely lose it I run out make it up half of the stairs to the front door Landing I got up the other half of the stairs to the kitchen I look around but there's nothing no one is home it's

just me and I'm just freaking out mom convinced me that I made these up and none of this was real I tried to pull myself together we can't afford for them to come home early from work so I come down get my head straight and pour myself a glass of water and that was when I hear the bang two bangs three four and five it is the unmistakable sound of the attic door you pull a cord and the stairs fall out and down and you climb up the hole in the ceiling except you can slightly

pull it to a certain length and let the cord go and it will still slam I know too exactly what it is and why it is making that noise but I just cannot believe it so I Peck my head around the corner and I see the Rope is taught it's straight down to the floor like someone is pulling it it wasn't swaying or dangling as the attic opens and slams there's something invisible there pulling it and doing this on purpose I completely lose my mind over this and I run to the neighbor's house I tell

them mom and dad come home early I get in trouble I have to see another school counsil um Tim I think this time but he had soft curly black hair and he's Pleasant enough but my parents tell me to tell him that it's not real I refuse though I see a Dr glickstein at some fancy office downtown I tell him everything that I've told you guys up to this point I have to see him a few more times eventually my mother convinces him though that I'm just making up stories the terror campaigns though they continue

for another whole year it is mischievous evil persistent little things that Crescendo into big things that become aggressive and threatening like like it was messing with me I'm seven now and one day I get really sick like very sick so sick another family member has to come over and watch me I'm laying in bed with a window fan in and I'm on the cusp of sleeping I'm praying to God and asking Grandpa for help and I just can't do this anymore when I see a little golden tornado looking thing coming from the outside through the

window fan into my floor it's in the corner of my eye but I'm frozen in Terror because I mean what now right but I suddenly just sort of feel peaceful the corners of my sheet get tugged on and I almost lose it but I realize they're getting tucked into the side of the bed I feel a warm sort of soft hand like my grandfather's press on the of my back I'm suddenly no longer terrified in fact I'm sort of serene and never been more at peace I crack an eye open and I see that it's

now 1: in the morning everything settles and I'm calm and not only do I feel better emotionally but my illness even feels a whole lot better A refreshing rejuvenating Breeze comes into the room and it carries me to sleep at night I I sleep really peacefully too I wake up the next morning my family member is frying eggs and the house is the brightest that it's ever been it's like a Disney movie with animated birds outside singing the food is fresh the world is bright and new every family member is happy and even my brother

is in good spirits it seems like an entirely different world we are eating breakfast and I thank the family remember for tucking me in so late last night she then says well that's strange I went to bed after tucking you in at like 8:00 p.m. and slept through the night this confused me for years and it took me a while but I realized that after that night I was never bothered again no more slamming doors weird dolls slamming attics laundry room door harassment nothing gone just like it never existed at all I'd go on to

forget about this until 2015 when that family member died and I guess again up until now I really still don't know what to make of a lot of it or how to feel about it I know it sounds kind of wild sorry for that but I think that there was some type of spiritual intervention that put an end to the haunting I guess I sometimes think Grandpa did me one last solid and came to help me I am not very religious at all but I just cannot shake the feeling that this is exactly what happened

I know it sounds wild but I mean really I've racked my brain over it endlessly and really what could it be I inevitably burned that raggedy andall outside with my brother who seemed to be the only one who ever believed me by that point it was emotional closure and not like destroying a spiritual vessel or cursed object but after that night I just never experienced anything again I'd grow up to be just a a normal person I've never since had any auditory or visual hallucinations or anything I'm convinced to this day that all of this

was very real though I find it hard to believe any of this ever happened in my head despite what my parents and teachers said said and in the end I think some type of Guardian Spirit stepped in and put an end to it when I asked for help and quite honestly I'm just not sure that there's really any other way to see this for me in any case thanks for listening and more importantly thanks for giving me this safe place to share this you can only be gasted and ostracized over real events so many times

until it becomes a bit of a sore spot stay safe out there everyone and never be afraid to ask for help 2 years ago me and my family moved across States and moved into my current home we usually have a lot of people in our house and my family is usually outside on the porch some family was supposed to be flying back to the state that we moved from that day too now I was getting home from school last year and was walking through the door my mom was walking past into her room and I

called out to her she didn't answer me though so I just sort of brushed it off because she does have pretty bad selective hearing my dad was outside smoking so I went outside and gave him a kiss and a hug to let him know that I got home I sat down and told him that I saw my mother walking into her room and joke that she ignored me my dad gave me a confused look and told me that she was at the airport dropping some people off I thought that he was joking with me and

laugh saying that she probably forgot something and was just getting it and I pulled up my phone to look at her location to like I don't know prove that she was here and it said that she was 45 minutes away at the airport my dad looked at me weird again and said I told you so but the thing with my mom is that she's kind of short my sisters and I are all a couple of inches taller than her in fact she ALS o dyes her hair like an orange color and one of my sisters

has black hair and the other one is like a dirty blonde which means that no one really looks like her so it couldn't have been them but the real kicker to this story is that maybe about a week ago or something like that we were talking about like ghost experiences in a group of me my dad and my mom i r told my story and my dad got this sort of look on his face he does that face when he doesn't want to say something scary but I pressed him on it and it turns out

that something similar had happened to him too my dad's from Morocco and his mom visits from time to time in the states and one time when she was supposed to be in Morocco he saw her walking up the steps to go upstairs he was home alone because me and my sisters we were at school or work and my mom was at my aunt's house that day he chills on the couch a lot and from sitting where he usually does you can see the top portion of the stairs in our home he being the man that

he is walked up the stairs after he saw that and she disappeared upstairs but he gets upstairs anyway and sees her walk into the room that she would use when she lived with us my dad abruptly walked into the room convinced that she was somehow here but obviously no one was in there so apparently we have an entity that like mimicking mothers oh and uh by the way I saw my mother completely solid it genuinely looked like my mom even right down to wearing what she wore that morning I currently work the overnight shift at

a residential treatment facility for troubled youth our original facility was out in the country and it was originally a hunting cabin before being refurbished and added on to for this purpose that facility it closed down recently and relocated to a more Central facility in the city which used to be a home for young mothers now I've had multiple experiences at both locations despite my prior history of paranormal occurrences I don't usually assume that every weird thing is Paranormal especially with my graveyard shift hours I mean I sometimes might chalk them up to just the effects

of fatigue or whatever but my experiences were validated after sharing them with some co-workers who had worked there a lot longer than I have you see in our old facility from my office you could see directly down the hallway off of which were client's rooms one night out of the corner of my eye while doing some paperwork around 4:00 a.m. I saw a pale shape or figure emerge quickly from one of the rooms and then dart back inside without making a sound since I wear glasses my peripheral vision is very blurry and since I saw

this out of the corner of my eye I figured that it must have been one of the clients it seemed unusual though because the clients don't wear anything that is pale or whitish in color like that also why would they dart out and back in so quickly in the middle of the night like that it was suspicious either way and so as as soon as I saw it I got up and quickly went to the doorway in questioned to see if the clients were okay it took me about 5 Seconds to cover the distance and

when I got there the clients were clearly very asleep and I mean there's just no way anyone could have gotten out of bed into the hallway and back into bed so quickly without making a single sound or seeming so convincingly asleep since it was quiet enough and the building is old enough that I could have even heard when client simply turned over in their bed that was the most noticeable one there but there were other times I saw shadowy figures out of the corner of my eye but they were gone so quickly when I looked

closer that they might have been just my imagination also though there was a time when there was a set of curtains rustled and moved slightly on their own even though there was no draft that could have even moved them I checked I mean there were no vents nearby all the windows were shut and locked there was no wind outside that day either and I mean nothing else had moved near them after relating my sighting though of the pale figure to a coworker they just sort of laughed at me and said that it must have been

the lady in white apparently multiple staff and clients over the years had reported seeing a female figure in white no idea who it could have been though I also heard stories of kitchen cabinets opening and closing on their own books flying off of bookshelves and multiple sightings of shadow figures now at our new facility the one that used to be a home for young mothers the activity has died down considerably though this facility has its own share of Spooks that's for sure on one of my first nights here I heard Footsteps in the hallway approaching

the office in this facility the office is on the corner and you can't really see anything from inside except the opposite hallway wall you have to leave the office to see down either hallway so I assumed it was a client awake and about to ask for something I peaked my head out the door but when I did there was nobody there the footsteps sounded light and fast though like a a child's perhaps this facility is very well lit even at night and if someone were approaching the office you could see their shadow on the wall

before you actually saw them and one night I swore that I saw what looked like a person's Shadow moving across the wall in the way that you'd expect an actual person to follow so again I peaked my head out but there was no one there a couple of other times out of the corner of my eye I saw the edge of a figure passing by the office window as if they just passed by and were going down the hall both times what little I saw of the figure before it disappeared just sort of appeared black

and adult sized I guess I've also heard footsteps a couple of other times including with a new coworker who I was training one night that was kind of nice honestly because I knew for sure that it wasn't just my imagination and me going crazy as he definitely heard them too and got freaked out by it like I did in any case I related these occurrences to my new supervisor who has worked in this building for a long time they Shrugged the off and just stated very matter of factly that the building is haunted before my

current company took over management of this facility it had previously been run by a Catholic religious organization and it had been staffed by nuns my supervisor told me that they and others have seen figures of nuns in the hallways before as well as The Apparition of a young girl they suspect that that might have been what has been making this childlike footsteps that I keep hearing also before my own experiences here started my supervisor did warn me that I might hear strange noises at night but that there were usually nothing to be concerned about none

of these things have really freaked me out much I guess but I mostly just find it weird and sort of interesting and amusing I guess and I actually enjoy being in this place where co-workers have also experienced things so I don't feel so alone or feeling like I can't tell anyone because I'm afraid that they'll think that I'm crazy or a liar or whatever it is the first job that I've worked where paranormal occurrences are so commonplace that they're believed I wonder if it's because of all the negative energy surrounding our troubled clients perhaps I

won't pretend to know that I have the answers but this is the story that I have and I swear by it [Music] right now I'm 22 I'm male and when I was around 9 or 10 I don't remember the exact age my father asked me if I wanted to go with him to repair an old lady's broken television my parents at the time were divorced so my mother had no idea about this whole trip back then I knew my father was often sad because of the divorce and being forced to see his kids less and

I knew that he just wanted to spend more time with me so I said sure or why not even though I would have much rather stayed home to just play video games this old lady lived in a small village 20 minutes away with car from our town when we arrived everything was pretty much normal I mean you could see some people on the streets here and there and once we arrived at the lady's address I only saw one person on the street he was a man in his mid-30s with unkempt black hair and dirty clothes

he was either on his way to do his daily Farm Duty or he was already done with them and was on his way to the pub we parked in front of the lady's house and rang the doorbell on her gate the entrance door was a bit far from the gate so we couldn't hear if the doorbell was working or not and also couldn't see it because it was on the other side of the house 2 minutes pass and there's no answer we rang again another 2 minutes passed and nothing by the third time that we

rang I was already hopeful that the lady just wasn't here and that I'll be able to go back home and play on my PC 5 minutes later this time but no answer again my father tried calling the lady but there was no answer to the phone either he kept calling her over and over again but he never got an answer at this point we must have been in front of the gate for like half an hour until the man that I saw earlier came back and approached us he asked us if we were looking for

the lady who lives there we obviously answered yes and told him that she's not answering to her doorbell or phone The Stranger immediately proposed us with an idea I'm trying to remember this exactly as best as I can but it was something like I know a way around her gate we can get into her garden that way which was obviously a bit weird but because me and my father had been waiting there for quite a while at this point neither of us questioned it and my father agreed to it so my father proceeded to follow

the man and walk around the lady's gate I was left there alone for a while I forgot to mention too that this I forgot to mention too that this whole thing happened around noon so it was much less scarier for me my child brain could only be scared if it was dark outside at the time otherwise this was just rather boring but around 10 minutes later my father and the other man shows up in front of the gate and opens it from the inside and they both looked rather taken aback I remember my father saying

I'm going to go back you stay here with the stranger and I agreed a couple of seconds later when we were alone The Stranger starts talking to me I'm vaguely quoting him again but it was something like dude the old lady that you came here to see is dead in front of the door she's naked laying on her stomach and there's blood everywhere that was it that was all that he said to me he also asked my name if I remember right but that was pretty much our entire conversation until my father came back with

a much more concerned face he and the man started talking about the next steps The Stranger started explaining how that morning he saw another man entering the lady's Garden the same way as he and my father had just done and walked towards the front door but never seemed to to come back out again he started blaming himself that he could have stopped all of this from happening if he had just cared a little bit more but at the time honestly neither of us could blame him my father called the police obviously and we were told

to stay there until they arrive while we were waiting another person showed up around the same age as the other man with similar dirty clothes the two strangers started talking to each other the guy told everything to the other person the same way as he told me I don't think he did it too because he didn't feel the weight of the situation he just probably didn't know any better but the cops arrived about 15 minutes later a few of them went inside the house while two of them started questioning my father after a few questions

he turned to me and said hey um I know a friend in this Village and you're going to go stay at their place all right until I'm done talking with the police I think he did this because he knew that if my mother was about this situation she would have made sure that I'd never see him again so I did as he said sometime later a middle-aged lady approached us though and walked away with me to a house close by I was welcomed by a family with three to four children I don't remember exactly but

that doesn't matter either way but at this time I still had no idea what was going on because the concept of like sexual assault and murder was non-existent to me the only thing that I knew was that the old lady in the house was dead and now I have to stay with this family until the police is done with my father the lady sat down next to me with her husband and they started talking to me that it's going to be all right and that I don't have to worry about my father she's going to

take care of me until he's done with the police all of this at the time meant absolutely nothing to me I was so clueless of the situation as a kid that I didn't even answer her reassurances I just turned to the window and watched as my father was still talking to the cops as the day went on the family members of the house got more and more depressed the lady even started crying I knew that she was crying because of the whole situation but only later I realized how truly dark the whole thing was one

day the old lady in the neighborhood is happily living her life and the next day she's just dead no more kind regards from her or cheering w in the morning just a house with well no one inside around 10:00 the lady gets a phone call and tells me that my father is done with the police and I can finally go home with him as I reunite with my Dad we both get into the car and drive home neither of us said anything about what had just happened in the past 10 hours my father is pretty

bad with communication honestly not clinically bad he doesn't have any conditions or anything anything but he's just sort of bad at it when we got home I went to my bed and honestly I I slept just fine the next day everything was normal like nothing even happened I didn't say a word to my mother when the weekend ended because I didn't want to get my father in trouble now that I think about it too I don't think I ever told her about this whole incident anyway 2 weeks later my big sister comes in the morning

with the news about a local doctor getting arrested for sexually assaulting and murdering an elderly woman in her doorway me and my father exchanged a look and I remember him saying something about it but I cannot remember for the life of me what it was after that too I never heard about the whole story ever again after all of these years the whole situation still feels like a a memory that just never happened so much so that 2 years ago I asked my father if it actually happened or if I'm just remembering a childhood nightmare

or something but of course he said that it did happen and that really it wasn't a dream so this started about a month ago when I was housesitting for my brother while he and his wife were in an anniversary trip I was just sleeping there for the night and fell asleep on the couch since it felt weird to sleep in their bed I couldn't find a blanket and there wasn't one on the couch but when I woke up I had one on me I asked my mom if she had gone by and put one on

me since my brother lives literally like 5 minutes from her but she said no and that she was too tired to drive there that night anyway a couple of days later I told my sister-in-law about this and she said my nephew her son who's three had been seeing things and said that he saw a skinny person walking around there but there was no one there obviously I started calling it Toby because that's the name of the demon in Paranormal Activity and my mom called it Red Rum now my name is Joseph and my nephew who

can't speak well always calls me yvis this is important because last week I was taking him to the local arcade and he went to my brother asking him for quarters yelling out y yis and I was walking behind him and I heard clear as day a woman whisper yis as I was walking past the living room seriously it sounded as if it was whispered right in my ear and I mean it couldn't have been my sister-in-law because she was on the other side of the house and no one was near me besides my nephew finally

though my sister-in-law said that night that her and my brother woke up to a golf ball being dropped in the kitchen but she went out to look in case it was just my nephew playing since he does play with them a lot but when she got there there was no golf ball anywhere nothing near there in fact my sister-in-law told me to take back whatever I did because she's worried that it's a demon while my brother is the horror movie husband you could say they live in a small house that's kind of old but I

don't think anyone died there and I don't know it's just kind of weird and really I I don't know what to do about it so I just got back from a trip to New York City I go there multiple times a year as I have family and a handful of close friends that live there I've been meaning to share this since it happened a couple of nights ago but I wanted to make sure that I had the time to sit down and really reather all the details correctly and look I'm sure we we've all had

those crazy Subway stories at one point or another in our lives but genuinely I I never thought that I would end up in one this terrifying so I was heading back to my hotel from a friend's house at about 3:00 a.m. the other night my friend lives deep in Brooklyn my hotel was in Manhattan so if you know the city then you know that that's about a 30 to 45 minute long train ride give or take my friend finally arrived and I was happy to be headed home home I was exhausted and it was really

late my trip had been going unexpectedly well up until this point so I had faith that I'd be able to get home with no worries especially since the trains and the streets were basically empty at this hour the train was brand new and had just been cleaned something that I've never even seen before to be honest heck it even smelled like a new car and still had fresh mop water on the floor there was only about three other people on my train more minding their own business so far so good right well about two stops

into the train ride a man that looked like maybe he was in his late 20s stumbled into our train car mid ride through the connecting doors of the cars he had on a Nik ski mask which usually isn't a good sign on a nice 70° night in general context but I'm not one to judge by appearance plus I know the shyy mask is sort of a trend nowadays so I didn't think too much much of it at first he sort of hobbled in and he was clutching his stomach almost as if he was concealing something

or hiding a wound his eyes were bloodshot red and at first I thought that it was because he was high or something he immediately hobbled into the nearest corner and sort of sulked in the corner facing it until the next stop he then ran out the closest door and erupted into the most painful crying that I've ever heard he was just screaming moaning and crying all while stumble running sort of alongside the stopped train on the platform still clutching his stomach screaming things like why and gasping through his tears keep in mind I'm sitting in

the middle of the train facing away from the side that he got off so I'm kind of breaking my neck behind me as he's running behind me to watch what's going on he then ran back inside the same car through the door on the opposite side of the car now he was on my right before but now he's on my left there's no one in between me and him now since everyone else is closer to the right side he did the sulking while facing into the corner thing on the other side of the car now

but this time he kept scream crying and yelling things like why again but he was crying so hysterically that it was hard to make out a lot of what he was saying from the certain words that I gathered though I'm almost positive that a very close friend of his had just gotten killed or something I guess it's really the only thing that would explain the way that he was acting and the things he was saying plus he was suited up like he had just come back from a street Mission gone bad or whatever at this

point everyone on the train was frantically flicking their eyes over to him every few seconds you could tell that they were panicked but not trying to cause a scene about it or rile him up anymore I was getting a little sused out myself but I had seen and heard about worse on the subway and if someone that he knew had really just died then honestly I sort of felt horrible for the guy before anything else but then the entire situation escalated to a point that I had only ever seen in movies or crime shows until

now the man stayed in this corner crying and screaming and muttering things to himself for about another 3 minutes or so all while continuing to clutch his stomach as if he was concealing something I had definitely seen a black object in his hand too by this point but I couldn't tell if it was big enough to be a gun or not after I saw this I tried not to take my eyes off of him for too long at a time since I was the closest person to him but I also didn't want to stare he

was starting to say concerning things though like someone's going to pay for this and then he would just repeat it louder and louder and then he burst into a dialogue that genuinely made my heart drop keep in mind he's still facing the corner hunched over clutching his item he then says all of you sitting on this train right now you're all going to feel me tonight you hear me you're all going to feel me tonight and you're all going to hate it too oh man you're all going to hate it he kept getting louder and

louder as if he was saying this to the point where he was basically screaming by the last part I don't know what he said after that because as soon as that train stopped next I just absolutely bolted he was screaming at me as I got off but I couldn't hear it and I definitely wasn't trying to turn back I ran back up to the nearest Street exit chain smoked a couple of cigarettes and I waited 20 minutes for the next train to come I've seen enough in my life to know that this wasn't a situation

that I was willing to gamble with at all I do pray that the last three people on that train got home safe and nothing happened I briefly searched Twitter and the News the next day for any possible information that I could find but I didn't see anything Honestly though who even knows what's worth a headline to them down there anymore I had a close dear friend years ago we went to high school together and in ly became close as we enjoyed the same well everything pretty much movies games activities and so on this friend had

a beautiful Cottage in mccoa which was about an hour and a bit from the area that we lived in they would talk about it a bunch saying how awesome it was to go there in the summer as it was right by a river and was perfect for swimming and paddle boarding and all that they also said that it was kind of haunted though just a passing comment about how it was spooky how they'd hear things at night how it was probably home to a ghost they always said this jokingly like it was no big deal

so we'd usually laugh at the idea that their beautiful and pretty much newly built Cottage was actually a ghost house fast forward a couple of years and they invite me out to their Cottage in October the family was going up and my friend asked if I could come with them I was super excited to go because I'd never really been to musoka and knew how beautiful it could be especially in the fall and also how often my friend mentioned the fun that they'd have at that Cottage I want to now preface what comes next with

the fact that I have never had any paranormal stuff happen to me ever I don't disbelieve it and never have but I've never been in a position where I'd feel like okay this is definitely paranormal stuff until this event so we get to where the cottage is located in this small Community called maasvlakte to which they said oh I know it's weird right like heavy and things lighten up however when we arrive at the cottage this place was absolutely beautiful new build three floors Big Deck on the second floor and tons of Windows that went

floor to ceiling it overlooked the river and it had a forest trail at the back even the trail was way too thick with brush and wood to even try to navigate so we spent a lot of our time out by the water and on the Big Deck just sort of chilling we drive into the nearest town Bracebridge for some outings and at night we dedicated our time to beating the Cod World at War campaign split screen it was an absolute blast we went for a long day walk to and saw some of the interesting points

of miasf a big Dam and beyond that a strange and small sort of graveyard that was situated on a slight Hill at the very tip end of the community all the graves were pretty old and some of them were unmarked others you couldn't even make out what the stones had written on them it was eerie but nothing out of the ordinary happened for the first two nights that we spent there so I just thought that it was all a nothing Burger now on the third and last night the dad had to head home early for

some work stuff so it was just my friend their mom and myself hanging out for the night the mom was sleeping in the Loft way way up on the third floor and we made the basement floor our home for the weekend we decided to watch a movie and eat some snacks but when that was finished I suggested that we go out for a night walk since it was a clear night with a big moon out and I loved going for night strolls plus we hadn't really been out and about after dark and the place was

pretty beautiful at night too my friend though was really against this they said that the place was spooky enough during the day let alone at night but I managed to convince them and so out we went we were walk walking along the road that went along the river towards the dam and the end of the community where the graveyard was we made it about a quarter of the way when my friend stopped dead in their tracks I looked back to see what was up and they were just sort of standing there and they looked defensive

I asked what was up and they said we need to go back like now this feels weird and I don't like it at all I asked if they were scared like if they heard an animal or something and as soon as I asked that we heard what I can only describe as a deep and Loud crackling and snapping of wood in the dense forest above us on a Rocky Ridge that was beside the road opposite side of the river I looked up to where we heard it and it suddenly felt like everything just hushed crickets

and all other nighttime sound seemed to have just completely stopped my friend quietly said my name name I looked back at them and then suddenly the bushes and the shrubs underneath the ridge on the other side of the road just exploded as if something huge jumped in them and thrashed around this made us bolt and I remember just saying run as I followed behind my friend we ran non-stop straight to the basement door of the cottage we got there in minutes but it felt like seconds we ran straight into the basement bedroom and we both

hopped into the bed I remember saying that it was likely a coyote or a raccoon or something but as soon as I said those words a creaking started forming up above us in the living area of the first floor the creaking soon turned into slow heavy footsteps back and forth and loud as if someone was wearing work boots or something I remember my friend threw tear saying does that sound like a coyote to you I cannot even describe the ABS abolute feeling of dread that just suddenly washed over me like there was something up there

taunting us we lay in complete silence for what felt like hours we got into the bed at around 3:00 a.m. after our walk which turned into a run and the footsteps didn't stopped for an hour or so at least eventually I remember finally falling asleep at about 6:00 in the morning when we woke up the first thing that we did of course was ask the mom if she had been awake like last night at around 3:00 a.m. and she assured us that she wasn't she hadn't even gotten up once to use the bathroom she said

even if she did we should have been able to have heard her door open and then the footsteps Down The Loft stairs I mean everything was open concept on the first floor so it was easy to hear things going on there after that though we packed up and left and my friend's parents sold the cottage a couple of years later um and I don't think any of them went back once after that weekend I was curious about the area afterward though so I eventually did some Googling and learned that it was once a sawmill or

something like that and a tragic accident happened there I believe the owner's son drowned or had a bad accident in the mill or something tragic like that I want to say that that could be a factor here but honestly who knows all I know is that that night I heard heavy clear and Loud footsteps pacing around above us on the first floor and that was my first and only paranormal experience that I will never ever forget I never really discussed this because well it creped me out but I remember it from time to time this

happened years years ago and I was in a long-distance relationship at the time so every other week I went to my ex's Hometown and stayed there for the weekend it was about a 2-hour trip to get to the town station and another 2 hours to walk by foot to get to his house 15 minutes if you go by car which isn't always available his hometown is a province surrounded by thick forests it's a long walk just to get to the stores and food establishments as well I usually had to walk on the road meant for

vehicles that cut through the forest a lot of times I get to the hometown late so I'm usually walking in Pitch Black areas around 8 at night with just a flashlight for 2 hours just to get to his place at this hour there were no cars driving by and it's a pretty quiet town anyway it was always so Eerie when I was walking for a long time in the woods though there were a lot of parts of the woods that are completely silent not even sounds of bugs or Birds just my footsteps those were the

times when I felt like I was being watched but I never turned around in fear that I might see anything or whatever but after maybe a few weekends of me doing this and staying there there was a weekend when a car was available my ex took me to the station and we parted ways there when I got home he called me and said that his relatives who were driving home they live near my ex had seen me walking by the road in the forest they had been discussing it before he called me because they were

scolding him for making me walk to the station alone at night like that he explained to them that he drove me to the station and that there was no way that I was in the forest since I was already home too I asked if they were sure that it was me or just someone who looked like me but they perfectly described what I was wearing that day but they haven't seen me at all during that weekend so there's no way that they could have known what I was even wearing to add to this as well

his relatives are not the type to joke about stuff like this they also said that they got a good look at this person and that it was definitely me until now I don't know how to explain it it creeps me out thinking about it and knowing that there was something that copied my appearance I eventually broke up with my ex and realized how much I despised his hometown the air there feels heavy and depressing he also said the same thing back then but I don't really know anything about doppelgangers and I'm still skeptical about them

but this always makes me question what I believe in I also had a previous incident back then too with my friend group all of us were walking down the stairs in school we went to the bathroom and found one of us missing we were asking each other where she was because we were just talking to her as we were walking but this friend showed up in the bathroom complaining that we didn't wait for her and she was left in the classroom while getting her stuff we genuinely thought that she was just messing with us I

mean we were literally talking to her before she disappeared but a lot of other people had vouched for her that she was always in that classroom with them and they left the classroom together with her before she looked for us in the bathroom so again I just don't know how to explain this so I'd like to preface this with the fact that I have no idea exactly who or what it is that I saw but it's pretty spooky regardless of whether or not it has an Earthly explanation and that's the part that continues to haunt

me 10 plus years later so I grew up in Sleepy Hollow New York home of the headless horsemen and allegedly a number of other hauntings I was 16 at the time and riding shotgun in my then boyfriend's car headed home on Old Sleepy Hollow Road at 3:00 in the morning this was before my parents enforced a curfew because I was taking advantage of it at the end of Sleepy Hollow Road is Sleepy Hollow Road and a stop sign at which making a left brings you through a densely wooded area to my parents house old Sleepy

Hollow Road it is dark and curvy and cuts through the woods that contain the Old Carriage Trails which connect to the cemetery where the headless horsemen is laid to rest and set to ride as well as where some of the other Legends of Sleepy Hollow originated not many cars frequent this road outside of tourist season the village is quiet and the houses back there are quite sparse this was the case even more so about 10 years ago there weren't still aren't many lights on in these back roads but there is one right next to the

stop sign almost like a spotlight when we pulled up to that stop sign I got such a fright because a young woman wearing nothing but a long white gown or otherwise thin white dress was very suddenly standing on the road right next to the stop sign at first I was scared that we were about to hit her but when we drove away the reality of the situation really started to sink in and that's when I felt extremely unsettled what was she doing there at 3:00 in the morning it gave me a heavy pit of my

stomach this was around November in New York it was quite frigid and she had no jacket or any shoes on there are houses back there but really not that many she didn't look directly at us at all despite us almost hitting her and it almost seemed like she was just staring straight through us or Beyond us she she was unblinking and unmoving in fact very pale with the cliche long dark hair to match it I remember asking my boyfriend if he just saw what I just saw and he just nodded we never really spoke about

it again until many years later when I confirmed with him that it really happened it wasn't just a figment or a dream or something my parents live up against those woods with my room on the bottom floor I don't think I slept in my room for months after that incident and and to be honest I still think of it when I visit I have since read a lot about this figure and different accounts of it there are stories of ladies in white across many cultures but one thing that many of the tales have in common

is the Betrayal of a lover this boyfriend was my first love and unbeknownst to me at the time he was secretly sleeping with my best friend behind my back to this day it remains one of the worst portrayals of my life eventually he became very violent towards me as well and I can't help but wonder if she was a warning of some sort of course there are other related ghost stories in the immediate vicinity of where this occurred like the woman who froze to death at Raven Rock where she sought Refuge during a harsh winter

storm a colonial woman who died hiding from a violent Suitor a Native American girl who was killed at the hands of her jealous lover a teenager who died after being pushed out of her boyfriend's car during ing an argument holder of bohemia's Homestead was in those woods a quick 15minute walk from my parents house in fact I doubt it was her but she has a very sad and incredible story associated with her for those who are interested my favorite Sleepy Hollow figure in fact truthfully the list of many supposed apparitions of the area could go

on for far longer the happy ending I guess is that I dumped that loser and I grew up to work in the morning Mor I definitely don't scare easily and while I've had a few other unusual experiences throughout my life this one is truly a mystery to me I think of it every time I drive past that stop sign and I sometimes still have dreams about it as was the case last night so I've resolved to get it all out here in an attempt to unload it to some internet strangers feel free to share your

opinion or theories or similar stories skeptic or not because it's nice to be able to talk about this and it's nice to be able to get it off my chest I have experienced shadow figures for a number of years my partner is a skeptic on the other hand well was you see within the past 2 weeks we have both had a number of terrifying experiences the first time it appeared was to my partner and my dog Paul had taken the dog over the field at around 1: in the morning as he entered the field he

saw a figure to his right but he thought that it was a local teen smoking so he didn't pay too much attention as he got along the tree line and bent down to get the dog's mess he heard the trees rustling and sort of looked up the same figure was now in the bushes and he could tell now that it was completely black and featureless it was a prominent figure but a black and grayish prominent figure that looked like it could charge through you his description he was terrified and both he and the dog ran

the thing charged through the undergrowth keeping level with Paul branches were breaking but whatever it was it sounded weird inhuman was his description the dog ended up dragging Paul and they ran until they got home he's a skeptic but he cannot explain it we went down in the day and there was no clear path through the undergrowth and no broken trees or branches or anything a few days after I was in the same field with the dog and I heard rustling in the bushes and felt really oppressed and negative suddenly I looked towards the rustling

saw leaves moving and went to see if it was a mouse or something like that but there was nothing there I was looking around for a bit and eventually I looked above me in the trees and there up in the tree was what I can only describe as a shadow creature I told it to go home in that it was lost I eventually turned and walked away I walked home but nothing chased me we both walked the dog the following night and felt evil energy and knew that we were both being watched all of a

sudden we both knew exactly where we were being watched from as well and both felt it at the same time there was nothing visible there mind you but it was uncanny how we both pointed to the location where we both felt it coming from the last incident happened at 4:00 a.m. this morning I was walking down the road that I live on and a black figure moving fast caught my attention but I thought that it was the local addict definitely a person I came level with the alleyway that the figure had entered and that was

when I saw a black humanoid mass that I can only describe as radiating evil staring at me from what should have been its face but it had no features it was directly under the lamp poost which was working and I could see it absolutely everything and whatever it was it felt really malevolent the best description that I've heard of it is that it's a bull of a thing the feeling it gives off is worse than seeing it to be honest I'm not usually phased by shadow people but this thing this thing is dark and it

has me worried if anyone has any insights on how to deal with all of this then I would greatly appreciate it all a 28-year-old female live with my sister 26 she has two small dogs that also live there and I have two cats and sleep with my door open so they can go in and out as they want my sister sleeps with her dogs in her room with her door shut when she gets up in the morning her dogs run out and get into my bed with me because I usually sleep in later my boyfriend

spends the night most nights and leaves their house at around 7:45 in the morning to go to work where he clocks in at 9:00 a.m. I sleep with no lights and blackout curtains my boyfriend doesn't turn any lights on and just leaves the room and gets ready outside of my room too so that I can sleep now this morning my mom was here while I slept because her and my sister were going to go shopping together my sister's alarm went off at around 10:00 in the morning and she got up to go to the bathroom

she said that she noticed that my door was shut which is unusual and she went to the bathroom right next to my room when my sister came out of the bathroom she could see my door was now open and her dog was just sitting in my room and staring this would be the first time in almost 3 years that they haven't just immediately hopped into my bed she told her dog to lay down or to come out with her but her dog just didn't move she came into my room to get her dog and was

startled to see my boyfriend sitting up in bed next to me because he's usually gone for work before she gets up the room was Pitch Black except she said that there was a light on him like he had his phone on or something she left quickly because she was obviously embarrassed to have come in while my boyfriend was still in bed with me she said that I was in bed sleeping on my side she asked my mom if she had open my door but my mom said no later though I wake up at around 12:00

p.m. and my mom and sister asked me why my boyfriend went to work later than normal me never waking up when he leaves said I don't know but maybe he overslept I called my boyfriend and asked what time he left and he said in a really confused voice that he left at 7:45 like normal my sister didn't believe that so I asked him to send a picture of his clock in a slip and it showed that he clocked in at 9:00 a.m. he would have been at work before my sister even woke up at that

and there was just no light on in my room I mean I don't have any lamps next to my bed and my phone was under my pillow when I woke up so even if it was a pillow or something in the dark neither me or my sister can come up with an explanation for the light let alone why she saw a person in bed with me when I was alone or how my door opened by itself like that so my question for all of you is was this a ghost a time slip a glitch in

The Matrix does anyone have any idea as to what could possibly explain any of this so this happened about 4 years ago I used to live in a very rural part of NC in the Triad Foothills area um I was about 17 at this time and my house was in the woods about a football Field's length away from the road which wasn't a major one just a back road we did have neighbors I guess one on one side and they were pretty close separated by maybe 10 yards and some trees but the other side there's

a few Acres between us and the nearest house behind our house was acres and Acres of fields and woods and there was also a pond down there as well which which is important for later now we had a dog at the time and he had a sort of lot that we would put him in at night to sleep in it was nestled in the very edge of the woods about 100 ft from our house and it was about 7 or 9 at night and it was Winter probably January to February but I don't remember exactly

what I do know is that the holidays were over though I was taking a dog out to the lot that night as well I had his metal Bowl in one hand and the phone in the other I got about halfway to his lot and suddenly just felt really weird I did freak myself out taking him out sometimes so this wasn't particularly extraordinary or anything I shined my flashlight on the edge of the woods near to his lot where it sloped down a little bit and was further into the woods when I did this I saw

glowing white eyes looking back at me they must have been about 3 ft to 3 and 1/2 ft off the ground around my mind deduced that it couldn't have been a squirrel or a small animal so I immediately yelled for our dog dropped his food bowl which made An Extremely Loud racket metal on concrete and just ran inside I came in freaked out saying that I saw something in the woods and I was not going back out there my mom said that I was being dramatic and that it was just a deer and she would

go out with me I felt very confident after the the racket that I'd made that whatever it was it would have left by now and so I went with her to take him back out we walked out and I shined my light where the eyes were and the eyes were still there just as bright and stared right at us my mom got freaked out now and we both ran inside again she came in and told my stepdad that I was right and was freaking out saying that there was a man sitting down there in the

woods my stepdad then went out there with a real Flash light in a gun and we followed he shined it back in the spot where the eyes were he yelled hey real loud and this is when I got the best look at it the eyes were 100% about 3 ft to 3 and 1/2 ft off the ground whatever it was it stared right at us and then walked sideways not breaking eye contact very fluidly and then went off into the woods mind you we never heard a sound no leaves breaking no twig snapping nothing never

saw anything like it since then and every time I took my dog out I never saw anything like that again despite checking every time now before anyone asks I don't know how my dog was acting at the time I was just too scared to pay any attention to it I do know that he sometimes eats possums and skunks that fall into the lot and would bark at other stuff like deer and foxes the whole encounter he was silent though and seemed to just run inside with us and stayed close with us the land behind the

house I'm almost certain is native land way behind the house up on a hill overlooking the pond are stones in the ground about two or three with markings on them with certainty I can say the inscriptions are definitely old and are of a form of writing they're very weathered not fresh at all and a precisely Drawn Lines with parallels and equal spacing between markings and all that we've also found arroe heads in the area we jokingly called it the Indian burial ground but from my research natives in NC rarely practice burial like this with headstones

so I'm really not sure what it is but I'm pretty certain that it is native if not older now the pond I always got a weird vibe down by the pond fishing always it was a natural pond or spring but my stepdad turned it into a larger pond and we had cows and stocked it with more fish and all that there's a large slope that you have to walk down surrounded by baby pine trees on each side there's a small circle area right before you go down the hill to the pond and in this clearing

we used to find a lot of Bones I mean a lot there'd be three to four piles of fish and snake bones neatly in a pile normally all missing the head part this Pond is not close to where I had the encounter C by any means it's closer to the other side of the property if anything but still on our property so yeah but back in this area where I get the weird Vibes my stepdad has old fence posts separating his land and the neighbors it's an overgrown field or pasture on one side and straight

Woods on the other the neighbors did come back here sometimes but normally just a ride ATVs anyway one day in the summer I went back there with friends and in the very back line of the property was a crow's head stuck on the fence post it was really freaky and because of that we dipped I've seen this before at my grandpa's house too that time when I saw it it was on a fence post around his garden and he told me that you do that if crows eat your garden and they'll just stay away however

when I saw it at our house there has never been a garden anywhere near that fence post or close to that area at all anyway I'm sharing this story mainly because I'm curious as to what you guys think it is I can assure you that this creature wasn't any small Critter like a squirrel or a raccoon or a deer or anything I've debunked these myself because the eyes were too big and too high to belong to any small Critters and a deer would 100% have run away after all the Racket and noise that we had

made and my stepdad yelling too I mean we saw deer routinely and they're all very skittish as their prey animal right the only animals I can think of that it could be would be a black bear maybe a a mountain lion or a bobcat I lean more towards feline because it moved extremely fluid and smooth the issue with this though is that mountain lions aren't found in NC and bobcats are native but would be too small to fit the height of the eyes black bear is plausible I guess but also very very rare to find

in this area that I live in you find them mostly in the mountains if anything also I would think that a black bear would make more noise like Grunts and not move so fluidly like that and like all animals really they would have made much more noise moving away it's a small community and everyone knows everyone pretty much and everyone in that area hunts there's a lot of game Trails out and usually when someone's bought something out of the ordinary like a bear or a bobcat or a big buck or whatever it's the Talk of

the Town but no one's ever mentioned seeing something weird in the area at the time but like I said I'm curious as to what you guys have to say about this encounter I added the info about the native land and the croe head and the pond just in case these are any signs of Cryptids or whatever and could be useful in identifying it if it is Paranormal that is I mean I admit that it could be completely coincidental and not related but I just thought that it could be potentially important so if you have any

questions or feedback then shoot them my way and let's try and figure this [Music] out I live at home with my mother and sister in a house constructed at least before halfway through the 20th century but we can't be enti L sure of the true date not many details exist of the home yet with the little details that we have many photos of the house exist and I found a few of them hung up in the doctor's surgery and dentist nearby which is weird right anyway a little bit of background knowledge is that this house

was home to an elderly practically bedbound man who lived solely upstairs in my sister's room the closet in the room was turned into a bathroom but was converted back into a closet after he passed and my parents purchased the house soon after that as well he apparently died in that room and seemingly can't pass over or whatever ever since I was young a lot of weird and unexplainable stuff had happened in the house like the first thing that I remember from my own memory is that I was playing in my living room with a plastic

TIE fighter and sat on the ground when suddenly it just flew out of my hand and slammed to the the other side of the room I immediately ran out of the room to be consoled by my mother yet it still never made the idea that something could just fly out of my grasp without anyone else in the room any easier to comprehend or accept but the worst thing by far is what actually happened to my mom so my mom works from home downstairs in the kitchen and to reach the upstairs she would have to get

up walk for maybe 5 seconds then walk up the stairs for about 10 turn to the right and enter my sister's door to her room one day though my mom was working from home like normal and just got off call with a client when she was called by my sister mom mom come upstairs and see to which my mom replied I'm working you have to come and see me she kept calling my mother and she kept replying to just come down this went on for about 30 or so seconds and that was when my mother

realized that my sister was at school that day and that she was actually Home Alone the calling stopped once she stopped replying and she continued to work pretty creeped out after that there are many other weird stories from this house but for whatever reason that one always just gets under my skin so I'll start this by describing some things so first I'm in the car with my brothers and our mom pulls into the driveway of our grandmother's house to check on her due to recent concerns she hadn't been answering anyone and it had people worried

now here are the parts that made it feel closer to a horror film I guess so she had hundreds and thousands of broken nutshells on her front porch she always has lights on in her house after dark but you know what this time it was Pitch Black no lights or any blinds and it seemed really odd anyway we pull in and this pit of dread just appears in my stomach and a sour Feeling Just fills my mouth all of a sudden then my mom turns the radio down and tells us to stay in the car

I mean cool I wasn't going in anyway it was way too creepy and goes to the door and tries the screen door um it's locked no big deal she knocks on the door like an officer but the inner door opens so quickly as though she had just been behind the door waiting there I got chills at that and our grandmother looked inches taller which was really weird my mom goes in and the door closes behind her and this pit had instantly evolved into a feeling of just dread my brother and I shared a look as

we got got the same chills for whatever reason that evening the house just felt evil that's the best way that I can put it now after a few minutes of mentally wanting her to get the heck out of there she storms out and gets in the car and we pull out the next few minutes down the road were tense she seemed mad annoyed that's what we thought she was anyway but then she starts crying and now we're confused so we're asking if something happened she starts to tell us about what happened and apparently there were

no lights on in the house none at all our grandmother goes through the archway in the dark with no problems mind you she has bad hips and she's really clumsy but she wasn't grabbing the rails on the wall for help or anything this time nor did my mom smell any cat urine I know that's odd but her house has three cats in a little box that is difficult tole clean so it really should smell I mean it always does but not this time instead my mom smells floral scents like Lily and lilac and a bit

of lavender perhaps everywhere as well then my grandmother stands in the middle of the living room with her arms neatly together in the darkness still mind you while my mom tries to turn on a light but the light bulbs just were all taken out now this was just beyond reasonable because she couldn't have removed them without any help the floral scent got worse the closer she got to her and the room was really stuffy hot even dark and our grandmother didn't want any lights on apparently the couch was against the heater and the heater wasn't

even on the blanket on the couch was neatly folded like it hadn't been used all signs of the cats were gone too my mother said there was this like heavy weight on her chest when she was in there like someone was pushing her chest in and the way that she spoke apparently was just wrong she called our mom dear not sweetie or honey but dear and my mom went to give her a goodbye hug and this is where things got even worse my mother is taller than her and so she has her arms over my

grandmother's naturally but this time when my mom hugged her she was shorter than my grandmother and she said that she looked younger like there were fewer wrinkles and age and that it felt like she was hugging a stranger bear in mind too that my grandmother has been collecting these blue glass things pretty little things when there isn't any dust on them and these prized things were apparently now in a box broken and the box was shoved against a wall the next thing was that she always only had a single tooth but when she talked my

mom said that there was now a full set of teeth mind you she doesn't have any money to get any fake teeth or anything when my mom practically fled the house my grandmother just watched us leave in the darkness still acting really weird now I knew that she had been getting worse with her dementia lately but I mean what the heck right I mean that stuff makes you forget everything over time but not gain height or teeth pull every light bulb out and look 30 years younger honestly I would love for someone to make this

make any sense at all we have no idea what is going on with her and we could really use some help this happened when I was about 10 years old I was at a ski resort with my dad stepmom and three sisters and when this happened my sister's dad and stepmom were still out skiing but me and my sister Ava got cold so we went back to the hotel to get some food we sat at the restaurant in the hotel until my stepmom came down we asked her if she could hold the table so that

we could go up to the room quickly so that we could drop off our ski jackets we take the elevator and once we get off we start to walk to our room that's when I hear someone behind me go hey keep in mind that we're both still about 10 and 11 at this time I didn't think that he was talking to us so I just ignored it we walked into our room but before we can close the door the man steps into the doorway he was tall probably about 6 ft and looked pretty old maybe

in his early 60s or late 50s and he was wearing the hotel staff uniform but just without the logos the thing that raised a big red flag for me though was that he was wearing black surgical gloves he says hey I was just talking to you we spin around caught off guard Ava says oh us he goes yeah you I was wondering if you could grab a picture for me and come into my room to pour some water for me our parents always told us to never trust strangers and we already got a bad vibe

from him so we politely declined his tone then got a little bit annoyed and he said it'll just take a second can you please just pour me some water in my room at this point we already knew that this wasn't right so we said no again this conversation went back and forth for about 3 minutes until he tried to walk into our room our instincts kicked in at this point and I ran towards the door and said sir we're good and I slammed the door on him a and I sat in the hotel room for

about 10 minutes panicking on how we were going to leave or talk to our parents because we had left our phones downstairs we looked out of the peephole and he was gone so we eventually bolted down the hallway and ran back down the stairs to the restaurant once we told our stepmom she was obviously mortified and went to the office security here they interviewed us and asked us for the description because they didn't have any cameras in the hallway apparently we gave them the description and they told us that nobody with that description worked there

and that most of them were young broke college students at this point it really set in that if I had accepted and just helped him that may have just been the end of me so everyone out there please do teach your kids stranger danger because it may save their lives just like it did mine so I don't believe in ghosts but I also have never hallucinated before or ever again after this years ago I was taking my parents dog out the front yard to go and pee before putting her to bed I was staying with

them for a couple of months and about 26 or 27 at that time at some point I noticed standing in front of the tree was the dark figure of a man it was nighttime so I didn't think too much of it I mean it was just a pure black figure he was wearing a wide brimmed hat like my dad has so I naturally assumed that it was probably him I was a little confused though why he would be outside like this so I called out to him hey Dad but I didn't hear anything back he

just stood there as if he didn't didn't hear me I called out again still nothing then I heard my dad talking and it was coming from my parents' bedroom so I quickly realized that whoever was standing there was a complete stranger on the property then he bent over in motioned to their dog as if asking her to come here and even though she was standing on the driveway she started peeing and her legs were trembling as if she was about to collapse it was odd because she wasn't barking it was though she was paralyzed in

fear I then got a closer look and could confidently see that this person wasn't a person but rather a a silhouette of one at that I ran as fast as I could inside I came out just a moment later to look for the thing and it was gone and I didn't see it again the only trace of the experience was the dog's pee on the driveway now rationally I know what happened was the fact that I was afraid of what seemed like an intruder and their dog could probably sense that as well I'm surprised that

she didn't bark though I mean she's never really reacted this way to being scared she's always barked like crazy when she is scared I don't believe in ghosts or demons or evil spirits or anything like that however I will admit that it kind of feel feels like something along those lines I assume that it was just a hallucination even though I have no history of that and haven't hallucinated or had mental health problems since then either but it's really the only explanation that I have frankly I just brushed it off for years and then I

was watching a video compilation of scary stories one year on Halloween and heard of the hatman and how people all over the world have seen pretty much exactly what I did I'm still pretty secular when it comes to ghosts and stuff like that but man after hearing that what other people had seen and realizing that it was the exact same thing if that wasn't the creepiest thing that I'd ever heard then I don't know what is it felt like something that a character would come across in a horror movie not real life anyway the whole

thing's a bit embarrassing for me to share with other people but like I said I just can't get over the fact that there was something more to this especially because well the dog saw it too and the dog reacted so [Music] strangely so I've contemplated telling this story forever it seems because it just sounds not real but I love this place so much I've decided to share it here when I was in high school I worked at the local Pizza Hut and I was a closing server so after closing down the salad bar and mobing

I got out of there pretty late I had this ritual of texting my dad when I was almost done to let him know that I was almost home but mostly it was to test and see if him and my mom were awake or not if they weren't then I would take the long way home on the old country roads I lived on a dog breeding Farm 20 minutes outside of town and I would smoke a joint or jam out or whatever now one particular night I decided to do this and I was riding along a

back road about 3 to 4 minutes from my house this is a road that I know very well and my bus took this road my whole childhood one thing to note about my area is that I live in the Deep Woods of East Texas so most people who own property put their houses about maybe a quarter to half a mile back on the property and keep their exposed Woods as basically a natural fence and defense as well so while you can see a lot of driveways and mailboxes you can see almost no houses just pretty

much woods with chunks taken out now as I'm driving I come upon a toolbox like the ones that sit up in the back of a work truck smack dab in the middle of the tiny dirt road I pull up to it and stop and open my door stepping out but not away from my car and as I take in my obstacle I realized my headlights are not the only light on the road there are headlights small ones coming up a driveway that was parallel with the toolbox I quickly sit back down in my car and

close my door till only a crack is open so that in a moment's notice I can close It Go off into the grass and get the heck out of there if need be when a small riding wheel lawnmower comes out of the trees and riding it is a man in a full clown suit and a mask with a shotgun laad across his lap he turns and looks directly through my wind screen and into my eyes and brings the shotgun up out of his lap now I am a country boy through and through I can smell

when I'm somewhere that I'm not wanted so before he even got the butt of that thing to his shoulder my car was in drive and in the side ditch of the road I got out of there threw my joint out went home Coss rolled into bed and never really spoke about it again I still don't know what that guy was doing seeing as this was probably 2018 to 19 so after the Killer Clown craze whether it was a dumb kid or some crazy Backwoods man I'm not really sure but I'm really glad that I never

ran into him again so I haven't shared this with anyone because well I don't want to seem crazy I'm just looking for some opinions I guess if this was a prank or what I waited to share this because I was just so freaked out and I didn't know if any of them recognized my car or something anyway so I'm not sure where to start but I'll do my best so I live in northern Minnesota in a decent sized Town 15,000 however outside of town is extremely rural with very low populations in the surrounding towns this

happened on the 21st of June like around 1 or 2 in the morning so I had training for work down in the Twin Cities at the beginning of that week and hit the road to head back North at around 9 or so it's about a 4-Hour Drive North the first half of the drive is mostly Highway and then the second half is more of a rural two-lane road but still a common Road traveled I'm not sure if any of you have driven in Minnesota but there are deer everywhere so I was staying pretty attentive on

keeping my eyes peeled for something possibly running across the road what to look for are their eyes when it's dark as they tend to stick out in the ditch and you're able to spot them before passing them so I was on a stretch of road without a town for about 30 MI all directions when I noticed a glow in the woods which was some type of bonfire inside the woods but also there was a group of people standing in the ditch forming a line towards the woods I thought that they were deer at first these

are dense Woods too big pine trees so you can see into the woods fairly easily I slowed down because I guess I thought that maybe they needed help or whatever I'm going to try my best to explain it because my headlights were facing forward so I could only make out one person clearly and couldn't see too much detail for the other people as they were farther away in the ditch closer to the woods but they were lined up in a row facing the road but forming a line heading into the woods they had their heads

down looking at the ground but for each person that was closer to the woods they were closer to the ground first person straight up and then the next looked somewhat hunched over and then I think the people close to the woods were kneeling it was hard to make out their age but I had to guess maybe middleaged but I'm not positive I really could only make out the first person's outfit but they had on what looked like a white robe with a black sash around it the sash had a symbol of what looked like a

robot or some type of figurine with its hands facing out sitting down there was other imagery on the sash but but I was only stopped for maybe 10 seconds trying to process everything also these people never acknowledged me as far as I'm aware anyway just didn't even move whatsoever I was pretty much Frozen with fear as obviously this is quite abnormal and nothing like I've ever witnessed or heard about here so I promptly left after I got my focus regained on the road I tried telling myself that it was some hoax or maybe some different

people camping but it was just too odd and it just seemed like that was not the case so I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced something like this or heard about it and if you have and if you know anything well what is [Music] it I've lived in many haunted houses all my life each with their own own experiences and stories but for the most part human in nature this though was the first time that I experiened something that I would call inhuman my dad was in the Army at the time and

had been stationed to a base in South Carolina he found a house for rent and showed us pictures of it it was a single story at the end of a roundabout in the middle of the woods you can see the other house off in the distance through the trees I looked at the pictures and whenever I looked at the pictures of the outside a voice in my head would start screaming at me it's in the woods it's in the woods nothing on the inside just the outside when we got there as we were unpacking a

cop pulled up too I never got out of the car but talked to my mom through the window about how he knew the previous owners and just wanted to check on things we never saw the cop again after that but it was weird anyway whenever I go outside I get the Sensation that something was hiding in the tree line and that it wanted me to follow it I felt like it was trying to be playful and mischievous I would also see figures walking by the windows and heard scratching from outside even one night I woke

up hearing something moving around outside I went to look outside peeking through the blinds and I saw something crouching in front of the window if it was standing it would have been on two legs and at least 7 ft tall given I could see the silhouette of shoulders and knees I could also see that whatever it was it was covered in fur obviously I was pretty freaked out days later my parents had taken my brother to the airport as well and I was home alone I was doing laundry and I saw that my room was

brighter than normal for some reason I figured that I must have left my bedside lamp on so I went to go and turn it off I stood in my doorway and saw that my lamp was off looking up my ceiling light which had never worked since we moved in was on I texted my mom asking if she had the light fixed and she said no that was really weird because we checked that later as well and that line was broken eventually I left for Army basic training but my mom kept up to date on what

was going on there and she said that she was hearing the scratches and the noises now that I used to hear one night she was talking to my dad by the door and said that they both heard someone run up on the porch and rattle the door handle my dad whipped open the door but when he did there was nothing there we never got any answers to what was in the woods or the house but it was my first experience with something that honestly felt inhuman this incident happened a few months ago well I worked

at a former police department here in the Southeastern us I was a patrol officer there and our shifts at the time were 12 hours 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. I enjoyed working nights a lot of fun and crazy things happened which really kept things interesting the night started as it usually does as well a shift briefing pass on General pre-shift Shenanigans I'd say about the first 3 to 4 hours were pretty normal as well wrecks domestic disturbances and the likes but I'd say maybe 11:30 to 11:45 we received a call for a severe wreck a

black sedan rolled over and was upside down in the dit which the callers who called it never stopped but they said that they didn't see anyone in or around the vehicle I was the second one on the scene my sergeant being the first now I have been to gruesome scenes before gunshot and stabbing victims welfare checks to find decomposing bodies and other terrible scenes I was generally okay with handling them but nothing could have prepared me for this scene so in the car was an infant's child seat ripped from the restraints my first hope was

there wasn't a child in the car on further investigation though the front Shield wasn't even attached to the car anymore it happens a lot in rollovers but about 30 ft away in the knee deep High Grass I saw a depression from what looked to be something displacing the grass as I approached I saw the body of a woman 28 years old based on a driver's license and we recovered her she was in and out of Consciousness and hardly being able to speak we had a lot of trouble with her when I found her fire was

rolling on the scene and I radioed to them that I'd found the victim and despite the noise I heard distinctly where is my baby when I looked back down at her she was staring at me and my heart sank because it was then that I realized that there was a child somewhere in either the vehicle or ejected somewhere out here I immediately began searching the field after telling my sergeant that a child was also in the vehicle we searched and searched and eventually well unfortunately you get the drift that was the moment that something in

me just changed as well after the mother and the child were transported Ed we learned the mother succumbed to her wounds a single car two fatality wrecks I was placed on admin leave and had to speak with our psychiatrist for several days until they deemed it okay for me to return to shift my first night back was routine calls that we usually had the same as the second night the third night though we received a call once again a wreck on the same road as before in the same manner as well I was closer to

the location and arrived at the scene first mind racing hard going 100 m an hour the memory suddenly flooded back from that first Collision but as I rolled up to the scene there was nothing no wreck just an empty field and darkness my blue lights were on and so were my scene lights confused if I was at the right location I radioed my dispatch to confirm with them and they acknowledged that I was in the right place I scanned and nothing was out of the norm nothing was Disturbed the ground looked the same as it

had been forever it was then that I thought that perhaps this was a really cruel prank call or something maybe an error on the caller so I got in my patrol car turned my blue lights off and prepared to drive further down the road to have a little look around as I place my car in to drive though I noticed movement out of my peripherals but when I looked there was just Inky Darkness I shook it off and I drove off I never did find the second supposed accident and I ended up being told to

clear up as other calls were waiting but later that night when things began to calm down at around 3:30 in the morning I decided to drive down that road once again just to take a look as I turned left onto the road I honestly felt as if something nudged my right arm instantly my hair on my arm stood on end and I got the chills no one else was in the car with me but I tried to rationalize it I continued on down the road as I approached the original Rec scene I saw off to

the side of the road what appeared to be someone standing in the distance in the field despite the distance and being in the shadows of my headlights I could tell what clothes that they were wearing blue jeans and a light shirt but what caught me off guard was I could see the figure holding something in its arms as I got closer I slowed down to a crawl trying to use my Spotlight to see better but when I went back to look again there was nothing there something in me told me to stop the car and

I did as I got out I looked into the field with my flashlights from the roadside behind me and on the other side of the road from the field was a wooded plot of land and from there I could hear what sounded like footsteps but lighter this was late Autumn and there were a lot of leaves on the ground so there should have been more noise if someone was walking around on freshly fallen leaves like that I informed my dispatch that I was stepping out of my vehicle and where as I ventured out into the

field I found the original spot where the mother lady gors gloves and various other medical bandages still laid there intertwined in the long grass despite being late autum the temperature was sitting around 55° but as I approached I could feel the temperature suddenly drop I got the chills again Goosebumps and a feeling as if I was suddenly being watched I scanned again and still nothing as I left the spot I'm began walking back to to my car looking down as to not trip as I went I looked up and my heart sank standing on the

driver side of my car illuminated ever so faintly but not enough to see a face was a woman holding clearly a Child In Her Arms it was clear too the same clothes as before but just obscured in the face I called out to her and continued my way to her trying to shine my flashlight at her but but as I did I saw her step back into the Shadows my flashlight seemingly not able to pierce that Darkness as I got to my car I called out again searched with my flashlight even going as far as

turning my scene lights on but nothing paranoid I searched my vehicle searched the Woodline and the feeling of dread became just too strong and eventually I got in my car and I just left shaken up by the experience I called my sergeant and told him what happened PTSD is what he said and I was told to take the next several days off and to speak with the counselor it really messed me up after everything was said and done though I did return to work a week later I just never went back down that road by

myself while employed there several other people witnessed the same experience after I left even people who were never even on the scene during the wreck all describe the same woman holding a child in the field in that tree line so a few strange things have occurred to me and my boyfriend since we moved into our current flat last July and I just feel like this would be the best place to share it and just get it off my chest it might be a little bit long too so I apologize in advance but I was just

looking for maybe some answers or some sort of advice now before I describe these events I'll say that I began experiencing sleep paralysis around 4 years ago and have had a range of unpleasant experiences with it in the past however these experiences have never been physical and visual that is until moving into this new flat I'll also say that my boyfriend has never had any past experiences regarding anything that he would consider paranormal though the events that have occurred in the flat have left us both a bit confused and definitely a little bit spooked out

too since my boyfriend and I moved into our flat we've experienced minor things such as noises sounding like something has fallen onto the floor and began to roll across it only to find nothing that could have made the noise other times we have heard noises as if someone large or something large is being dragged across the wall in the hallway but when we've opened our door to check what was making all that noise there's nothing there and the motion sensor light is off too if it's activated it stays lit for around 5 minutes one more

common thing too we experience is the chain on the bedroom blinds rocks from side to side side sometimes this doesn't happen as a gentle swaying though there have been a number of occasions where we have gone into the bedroom to investigate a loud clattering noise we've heard it over the volume of our TV and music even to find it swinging violently from left to right rather than forwards and backwards we've tried to explain this away as just a draft but this would continue to happen even when there was no possible air flow from the windows

vents fans or the radiator and even if this were to be caused by any of these things the chain would swing forwards and backwards not left and right and it definitely would not make such a a noise to begin with it sounds as if it's being lifted up and released causing it to hit the wall and then begin to sway anyway upon initially moving in I was having some trouble sleeping or staying asleep I should say to the point where I had to seek some medical advice I was sleeping during the day as I worked

part-time night shift while I'm at University and finishing work at 7:30 in the morning but have since just started going to bed earlier in the evening when I was actually managing to sleep I would have very graphic intense nightmares some were so bad that I would wake up and just burst into tears even on a few occasions I would have sleep paralysis too but there was one time that this happened that ended up really shaking me up across from my bed there's a wardrobe where both doors are fully mirrored the right side wall as you

see it from the bed also has a mirror above a small desk during this particular sleep paralysis I watched my boyfriend who was not home but at work walked past the Wardrobe mirrors from left to right but this appeared only as his reflection inside the mirror he then wasn't visible for a moment as he seemed to have walked out of frame of the mirror until I saw the reflection walk past the other mirror on the right after this there was nothing for a few seconds but I was still in paralysis until I felt something yanked

the bottom of my duvet covers away from me cliche I know but this had never happened to me before it spooked me out of my sleep paralysis and I shot up and grabbed my covers towards me because they had actually moved I still don't know how to explain this way as my sleep paralysis experiences have never been phys IAL like this before so I don't really know what to make of it but another similar instance Happened One Night that my boyfriend was driving home from work and got stuck in a bad traffic jam on the

motorway delaying him a good few hours due to the distance from the site that he had been working at because I was working early I went to bed before he arrived home and at some point in the evening I remember him getting home and me having a sleepy conversation with him right before he got into bed and I fell back asleep I'm not sure how long after this but I was woken up again but I was woken up by my boyfriend who was standing at the side of the bed and had brought us some food

I was instantly confused asking where he had got the food from and when he had left to go and get it to be met with the same confusion because apparently he had only just gotten home I'm still so confused by this as this is not something that has ever happened to me and really creeped us both out and I just don't know what to make of it but the final straw for me was one evening I was talking to my boyfriend as I was just walking around tidying up only to turn to him at one

point and see what I can only describe as a a solid silhouette of a child crouched down directly behind him at this point I started straight up freaking out running into the bedroom and refusing to leave for the rest of the night the first day that I contacted my stepmom who is very spiritual and has had all sorts of encounters and experiences with the Unseen World including running her own business where she does raiki and Tarot cards or something amongst other things my dad and my stepmom came to visit the following weekend where she cleansed

the flat and recommended that I buy black taline for protection which I have but since then this kind of activity has decreased but not stopped entirely resigning in self to just the random unexplained noises I guess but one thing that I noted when my stepmom came to cleanse the flat was that she had asked whose side of the bed it was that my boyfriend slept on but didn't elaborate why she asked that and honestly I didn't ask why at that time but I'm going to as the events keep playing on in my mind and I

feel like I have no answers to anything I really don't know what to make of any of this to be honest the only connection that I can make are all leading back to my boyfriend with the silhouette crouched behind him the physical sleep paralysis him getting home twice in the same night and my stepmom asking about his side of the bed this is the second place that we've lived together and the occurrences only started upon moving here I did scour the depths of the incident and found that supposedly we live right by a lay line

but I found no solid evidence to support this though it is apparently discussed in a book about about the city that was published in 1987 which talks about Legends folklore and Mysteries this particular book however seems pretty hard to come across with it either being unavailable or unaffordable but in any case does anyone have any suggestions or ideas that I could investigate into a little bit because as for now I'm just completely clueless and any help would be really appreciated so I work as a child care professional and one of the kids that I look

after had recently gotten into hiking I decided to take him to a really cool Trail in Salt Fork State Park and we were all set to hike to hosk's cave after parking right near the beginning of the trail head the entire Trail is about maybe half a mile which is why I chose this Trail for our hike that day I also chose this Trail because any time that I had been on it before it was very busy and full of people and a very popular spot which made me feel secure however this past summer we

had a cluster of severe summer storms which caused massive damage to the trail so to my surprise it was much more difficult and completely empty as well I wasn't bothered by the trail being obviously empty because there was a small construction crew working on a bridge that was just barely visible from the trail head he was still up for the hike too despite the entire width of the trail being washed out until it was no more than a foot wide with like a 6 to 12T drop off into the creek bed that is solid rock

mind you and several trees down he was very athletic though and I was confident in his abilities if he was and he was also really excited to tackle our adventure so we continued we made it all the way to a platform that allows you to see the entire cave there were many down trees surrounding the the platform and it was actually closed at this point but we had made it this far so we decided to maneuver around the platform and proceed the few hundred ft into the cave we spent the most time in this area

due to the difficulty so I know exactly what it looked like there were tree roots directly under the platform and you could sort of climb up and down either side of them and it was also worth noting that hosk's cave is much more like a a cliff with an overhanging rock formation and a trickle of waterfall directly in the middle it is not a creepy closed up cave by any means and so it was very open and very beautiful in any case we got to the cave and I noticed a a candle that was not

burning recently but had been at some point sitting on a large rock that had a heart carved into it I chalked it up to someone having a date or something and disregarded it he wanted to climb up to the top where I noticed two more candles and three stacks of small rocks that had been stacked up by somebody I definitely felt weird at this point but it was about this time that he found a small puddle full of baby salamanders and he wanted to catch them it was honestly the happiest that I'd seen him in

a very long time and I didn't have the heart to tell him that it was time to go we spent about an hour catching baby salamanders and I watched him have the time of his life eventually though we finally decided to leave and when we got to the platform dead center in the middle of the tree roots was a wet washcloth hanging that was absolutely not there before and he noticed it as well but didn't pick up on the severity of the situation that we were in at that moment I factually knew two things one

someone was definitely watching us and we didn't see them and two they were now potentially hiding in the woods and made it a point not to be seen But to leave an object to be noticed there was no running back with the narrow trail and I was not about to tell him that we were in potential danger I told him to go in front of me and I just kept encouraging him that he was doing great over and over and that thankfully seemed to speed him up naturally I never did see anyone while we were

on that trail we got to the car and I locked the doors immediately once inside and on our way out of the park a very dirty man probably in his 30s I would guess came out of the woods and made it a point to stare at me with the most empty of Expressions that I had ever seen the man followed me with his eyes and his head as I drove by him and continued to stare at me until I couldn't see him anymore I knew the third fact at that point that he had made it

a point to make himself apparent to me and that facts one and two were true that stare stuck with me for days too and and I considered counseling after this as it bothered me for several weeks causing me severe anxiety for some reason I try to tell myself that maybe we just interrupted his bath time and he was camping and didn't want to startle us or something after all the crazy looking man had ample time to do something that he wanted while we were catching salamanders I just cannot in anyway rationalize why he stared into

my eyes the way that he did if he wanted to go unnoticed though deep down I know that it is much more likely that it was a deliberate action intended to scare me he never had any idea how panicked I was and to this day it was the most fun that I'd ever seen him have he brings it up regularly and it was a very positive experience for him but it was one of the worst experiences ever for me and it made me feel really sick anded really Disturbed so I think it's important that I

preface this story by stating that I'm always looking for a scientific or logical explanation to anything weird that I encounter but this this had me scared beyond reason and I've had a hard time finding any explanation so I work as a care provider and help run homes of folks that we care for one client I worked with was a man in his 50s however his health was declining to the point that most people assumed that he was in his late 7s or 80s this is relevant too whenever I went into his home I just got

uncomfortable Vibes is the best way to describe it I would always feel extremely depressed or anxious and uncomfortable when I was there I work with a lot of different people all over the city that I live in and out of all kinds of homes and I only ever got those kinds of Vibes once before and that was years ago but it never felt this bad it made the home feel I don't know oppressive whenever I was there I just hated being there by myself because of it too but a few months ago I started realizing

that I was remembering the vibe felt familiar from the other home from years before as I sat in the kitchen on my laptop one afternoon I started doing some research on the property to see if I could find any information on its history nothing unusual for it just an older building from what I could find I also started texting my sister if she ever got that uncomfortable vibe in the other house that I mentioned earlier because she had also worked there as well once I started texting and narrowing down my internet search to see if

I could find any information on if anyone had ever passed away or worse in the home it was like the house knew that I was doing this the air became heavy all of the normal hummings of the electric appliances amped up to an uncomfortable loud buzz and I had to cover my ears because I felt like they were going to pop from the pressure change the lights overhead got brighter and buzzed as well and I immediately shut my laptop and left the room I told my sister that I would have to get back to her

because I was done with even thinking about this as to not agitate whatever took notice anyway fast forward a couple of months nothing else major ever happened like that but I was still always uncomfortable my client's Health continued to decline until earlier this year when he eventually had to go into more intensive care I came back one day to gather some things for him and some paperwork it was a quick In-N-Out visit and as I went to exit and shut the door I could sort of see across the main room into the kitchen where it

looked like what I can describe as only a a dark silhouette figure just ducked out of sight but I saw it I know that I was completely alone in that house too and I just immediately shut the door and left without looking behind me I don't know what that was that I experienced there but it felt like I wasn't supposed to take notice of whatever was there the scariest part about all of this though is that I sort of think that it was feeding off of my client's life force since he moved into a a

few years prior and caused rapid aging and decline in health I'm not going to share anything specific about him but it was strange how relatively young he actually was given his physical condition and appearance this happened three nights ago and I'm going crazy trying to figure it out I just moved into a new apartment one month ago and I'm still unpacking and settling in I've been using my parents address as my mailing address who live a few Towns over 20 minutes away all my life three nights ago my parents called me at 2: in the

morning freaked out and proceed to tell me this story apparently at 1:00 in the morning someone starts banging on their front door and repeatedly ringing their doorbell my stepdad walks downstairs and opens the door leaving the front glass door closed and locked there was a man standing outside who looked to be in his 30s with a black hoodie on with the hood pulled up around his face he didn't have any distinguishing facial features facial hair or tattoos the only thing my stepdad said was that he looked to be Hispanic perhaps neither my stepdad or my

mother who was watching the whole thing out of a window recognized the man but the man then says oh uh I'm sorry to bother you but I'm looking for and gives my my full name my stepdad plays Dumb and says who the mayor proceeds to State my full name again and says that my boyfriend is worried because I didn't come home that night he claims to be a friend of my boyfriend and tells my stepdad that they're both out looking for me worried because I didn't show up at home mind you I don't have a

boyfriend I live by myself with my three dogs and haven't been in a relationship in the past 5 to 6 months but here's the weird part my stepdad asks the guy what boyfriend he was talking about and the man tells him the name of the boyfriend that I had when I was in 10th Grade nearly 20 years ago my boyfriend in the 10th grade has a a very very unique Italian name I've never met anyone with a full name even close to his but he says my high school boyfriend's name a few more times to

ensure that my stepdad Hur him and repeats that they're very worried about me is my stepdad sure that I'm not inside at this point my stepdad is weirded out and closes and locks the door in his face but the man doesn't leave he lingers in front of my parents' house for the next 10 minutes smoking cigarettes and talking on the phone finally my parents call the cops and about 5 minutes before the cops arrive the man walks down to the dead end on their block and drives away in a silver car my stepdad was unable

to get the license plate my parents file a police report and after that nothing else happens after I hear this story though I'm just going crazy over the weird details I mean how would someone know who I dated nearly 20 years ago and what would the motive be of making up a story that included that weird detail about my past I have not had contact with the 10th grade boyfriend in like over a decade yesterday I decided to message him on Facebook though to see if he has any insight I tell him the whole story

and he's just as confused as I am and claims to have no part in it at this point I'm just at a loss and I'm also really freaked out that some strange man is going through that much trouble at 1 in the morning to look for me if you have any insights or ideas of what this could be then do let me know because I have a feeling that something fishy is going on so back in 2015 my sister and I are home alone watching Craigslist horror stories on YouTube I know it's pretty ironic but

for reference I was 13 while my sister was 17 and having these watch parties had become something of a habit for us as it was our last year together before she went off to college we lived in a a pretty safe neighborhood and nothing had ever really happened at that point that would give us any reason to be anxious about being alone but anyway time goes on and my sister suggests that we order a pizza since she was hungry I'm not one to turn down a pizza so I naturally agree and we place an order

at a local pizza place we continue watching our videos for another 15 to 20 minutes before I step out to use the restroom and just then I hear the doorbell ring followed by my sister getting up to go and answer it so I carry on with my business with the assumption that was just the pizza I would say that maybe only 2 minutes had passed as I come back out and realize that my sister was still at the door talking with someone I couldn't really make out what was being said but I knew that it

was definitely a man's voice responding to her as I go to see what's going on my sister promptly shuts the door pizz are in hand I initially assumed maybe there was just an issue with the payment so I just teased my sister for taking so long and go and sit down I know I know know who thought a 13-year-old boy could be such an oblivious person right it didn't take long though for me to realize though that my sister wasn't eating despite this whole thing being her idea and even more so she had a very

nervous look on her face now and wasn't speaking much I asked her what was up and she proceeds to tell me that when she opened the door to greet the pizza guy he looked at her as if he was checking her out and followed up by giving her the most unsettling smile that she'd ever seen she was trying to get the pizza and go as we'd already paid online but the creep insisted on trying to make conversation with her the man pretended to Fumble around trying to get the pizza box out of his bag all

while asking very personal questions that he certainly had no business asking like how old she was and if she was alone and stuff like this now I admittedly thought that she was just messing with me at first I mean stuff like that can never actually happened to people that you know right nevertheless it still left me feeling a bit anxious we tried to enjoy the food and move on and I'd say about an hour or two later we had finally calmed down about the whole thing right as we were getting ready to clean up and

go back to our own rooms there's a knock at the door a very loud and aggressive one at that we share the same nervous look and then hesitantly slip over to the window to see if we can get a look at whoever's knocking now I hadn't seen the guy but my sister immediately recognized him as the pizza guy from before we were contemplating calling the police but the guy had only knocked once or twice more before getting in his car and taking off way too fast down the road almost like he knew that if he

continued he was more than likely to go and end up in a lot of trouble we made a round around the house though making sure everything was locked up and then waited for what felt like ages for our parents to finally get home home my sister told them about what happened but our mom insisted that we were just being dramatic that we had just made ourselves nervous because of the videos that we were watching and while we both initially insisted on being serious we eventually gave up and just tried to move on from the whole

thing we ordered from that place a few more times but thankfully we never saw that same Delivery Man again nothing else ever really came out of that situation but I can't help but think about what could have happened if that creep had just been a bit more persistent what if he had kept trying to get into the house or if we had accidentally left the door unlocked I think that his intentions were pretty obvious and I can only hope that his behavior has caught up with him and that he's somewhere getting the help that he

probably [Music] needs when I was in first through second grade The Neighbors at the end of the block they terrorized my family and their son terrorized our Nextdoor neighbors the next door neighbors they were a family that we were close with and I'll start with that first so Junior the teenage psychopath was friends with their son who was the same age my brother and I were always there playing with their daughter who was my age our moms were close and the mom was Maria and she was very pretty one day her son told told us

that he was going to kill Junior Maria told my mom that Junior had apparently been peeping in her window so she decided to film him to get evidence because she kept finding something white on her Windows she found out that Junior was playing with himself to her undressing he would then wipe everything on her windows and this was before our family had problems with his family one day my dad an avid cyclist noticed his very expensive bike with was missing he saw Junior riding it around the neighborhood he'd stolen it out of our garage and

my dad went to his father and told him to get his son to give his bike back his father yelled at my dad and denied Junior stole anything luckily he left the bike in their driveway and my dad took it back and kept it in the basement after that but a few days later someone knocked in our back door and my dad looked outside to see a plate of rice with a dead crow on it he called the police but but since he didn't see who put it there they didn't do anything when we would

go out we would leave our Bunny and guinea pig in their cage outside to get some fresh air and my mom and brother and I were only out for a short period of time my dad was in the basement but when we got home we went straight to our backyard that had a fence and big bushes in the back our kitty pool had been out and this is what we found our bunny had been drowned in the pool and our guinea pig was thrown over the extremely high bushes into the valley it was devastating for

us at the time piglet our guinea pig was still alive and my mom took her to the animal hospital she had severe internal bleeding though and her bones were broken so she had to be put to sleep but I just could not believe the cruelty all over my dad confronting Junior's dad over the bike so my mom went over to their house and confronted the father he readly admitted doing it saying that they would just animals he apparently did it with a friend and I can't remember how my parents figured that out but I think

Maria's mother saw them in our backyard or something the police were called but again nothing happened but that wasn't the end though you see one night I woke up to my dog wrinkles going crazy she was sleeping on my bed my bed was facing my windows then I heard knocking and I also heard a male voice saying something about coming in he also called me names and I also heard some expletives but I then saw Junior I then ran into my parents' room crying hysterically saying that somebody was trying to get into my room my

dad went outside and saw one of our patio chairs outside my very open window he called the police they searched outside my window and they saw shoeprints the cops thought that there might be two people though because of how many shoe prints were on the ground they went to the neighbor's house but his mother said that Junior wasn't home he was out with friends apparently but I bet that they were in his house but the police couldn't search it I was traumatized afterwards and my bed was moved so I couldn't see the windows I was

terrified to be at home though especially at night my parents bought lights that you can run along the entire house and around the patio to my window but I still get afraid at night if the blinds are open nothing ever happened to Junior 2 because there was no evidence that it was him plus someone in his family was a cop apparently so it was that it explains though why he wasn't sent to jail for what he did to Maria who actually had caught it on camera I also forgot to mention too that my mom was

talking to his mom before any of this started and his mom referred to her husband as the man she hated him and joked about poisoning his food and apparently he died of a heart ATT ATT shortly after Junior climbed in my window apparently and we've always thought that maybe she finally did follow through with that threat so this is literally something that I thought that I would never share I'm not a believer in ghost by any means I'm 26 years old and have lived my whole life without seeing anything paranormal what whatsoever however myself and

my wife have been experiencing some very weird things happen in our house you see two nights ago my wife was asleep with our daughter in her room and I was in the master bedroom I had gotten up at about 1:30 in the morning to get a late snack and while I was in the kitchen my wife came to the kitchen and asks me what babe I was completely confused and said what do you mean because apparently she had heard the door kn moved pretty hard so hard that she thought that it was locked and I

was trying to open it she was annoyed but I told her that I didn't do it at all I was pretty sure that she was dreaming and just heard me opening cookies so it was just whatever at that moment but just a couple of hours ago however she was here with my sister-in-law in my daughter's room again I was in the living room in cleaning and she came out to see what I was doing apparently they thought that I was playing a prank on the because the door handle had moved three times and they both

saw it moving it took me at least 30 minutes to convince them that I didn't do it my wife saw it happen again while we were all searching the house and there is definitely nobody in there this is recent but there were two separate times months ago where my daughter's room had toys making noise nonstop for at least an hour straight I was too afraid to turn it off too afraid to even move because it was 2: in the morning and I was was alone in the living room so that made no sense I had

to wake my wife up to come with me and pull the batteries out in the end but like I said I'm not a Believer but now I'm just not so sure anymore I mean I've looked at every reasonable explanation for the door knob but there's just no way that it could move by itself like that so what could this possibly be when I was a kid about roughly 9 years old I'm 20 now I used to sneak out at night and walk throughout my neighborhood sometimes I was a weird kid I used to watch a

lot of scary stuff on YouTube and stuff like that and I would spend my nights literally shaking out of fear but that didn't stop me my neighborhood is full of abandoned houses that were mostly left untouched after the war in 1995 I'm from Bosnia I always wanted to explore them as a kid but never could as I was a bit shy and that meant that somebody seeing me exploring and giving me a weird look would always make me run and I don't know why I was like this but that's not important now but there was

this huge house that was always surrounded by really large grass grass that was taller than me even and I really wanted to explore it I had asked my mom a bunch of times to go with me but she obviously declined and B bed me from going but one night I grabbed my dad's flashlight from the closet climbed through the window of my room like I had before many times and this time I went to the house it was midnight I arrived quickly as it was only a few houses from mine seeing no cars I ran

through the tall grass and ended up seeing a boarded up window there was a tight Gap that I managed to crawl through and I entered the house and to my surprise the room that I was in had nothing in it like literally nothing not even a beer bottle or a cigarette the house had no real windows or doors so I could hear a a sort of hissing sound of the wind I walked around for a bit and I realized that there was nothing really special about it and that I probably should have just stayed in

bed but while I was walking around I would stop sometimes because I could have sworn that I heard somebody else walking in there like the walking of heavy boots on Stone or something I froze thinking that there was somebody in the house with me I stood Frozen for 5 minutes and when I could no longer hear the sound I continued to the second floor the first room that I saw on the second floor was the bathroom it had a toilet broken in half and a bathtub filled with dirty water on the floor of it I

spotted something metal I continued walking and I see an attic like a a hole in the roof of the house leading somewhere there was a ladder nearby by and as I went to get it I saw something small like really small like sort of a lighter sprinting across the room I stood there and as a kid of course I started to cry a little bit I can't really explain what I saw but it didn't look like a bug or a rat but more like a a humanoid creature as I started crying I sprinted to the

window as quickly as I could that I came through looking behind me I could make out a silhouette as well like a man holding something I jumped for The Gap and while trying to get out I heard a huge bang like from a gunshot or something I sprinted back to my house and I went back in through the window and I went to bed I couldn't sleep for nights after that and my mother eventually took me to a doctor they said that nothing was wrong with me and a few years later I decided to bring

up this story with my mom she laughed me but told me something that really sent chills down my spine so The Story Goes that in the war between the serbs and the bosniacs that house was used by the serbs as a slaughter house it is estimated that over 200 bosniacs were killed in that house when my mom told me that I just went to my room and could barely believe it the metal thing that I had found in that house was probably a bullet shell to this day I don't know if there was actually somebody

in that house or perhaps if there was something paranormal going on but in any case I'm just glad that I got out of there when I did a few years ago my husband and I were staying in Brighton in the UK for a few nights it was a short getaway before I started a new job I'll have to ask him the name of the hotel as I can't remember but I do remember that it was an older building the inside was pretty modern though and the whole place was a bit like a maze up and

downstairs through doorways around corners through archways Etc our room though was set up like any standard hotel room bathroom situated immediately to the right as you enter the room bed against one wall and a dresser with a TV on it on the opposite it seemed like a relatively nice room for the price though at least by my low standards I suppose we were out for the whole first day though after we arrived got back to the room at around 10:30ish and started to settle down for the evening I sat on the bed for a while

scrolling on my phone while my husband was laying on his side of the bed with all the pillows stacked up behind him so he was nearly sitting up facing the TV dresser set up sort of thing and at this point the whole room was being lit up by one lamp that my husband had turned on on the side of his bed I stood up next to my side of the bed and started to change into my pajamas as I had my night shirt pulled over my head arms not even through the arm holes yet something

made me pause suspended over the dresser in the empty space about maybe a foot from the TV was a brilliantly bright white blue ball of light roughly the size of a football my mind was racing to make sense of what I was seeing at first I thought it must be some weird reflection in the picture on the wall behind it or something but that just didn't make sense I mean the object was clearly 3D not a reflection my second thought was that maybe I'd had a brain aneurysm and was dying it happens to 20-some year

olds all the time but within milliseconds the light began to expand it didn't just light up the room too it literally grew in size until it completely engulfed the whole room my third thought was that this must be something type of nuclear warfare something radioactive but it didn't make any sense that it was completely silent it didn't put off any heat either it didn't hurt at all but in an instant it was gone the room that was lit up by one lamp now seemed dark in comparison for a few seconds afterward I couldn't really see

anything as my eyes were adjusting back to the one lamp's worth of light in the room again in my head that was a a psychological sign too that I I hadn't imagined this light but with my shirt still halfway on I looked over at my very skeptical husband who said what the heck was that at first I thought that it might have been a camera flash but that just didn't make any sense I've never seen a camera flash so brilliant and that's not exactly the stealthy camera that you want to hide in a hotel room

to spy or guest or anything we thought that it might have been something electrical but the TV worked fine nothing of the light bulbs blew our phones that were all plugged in during this were fine it just didn't make any sense the one thing that I couldn't and still can't get over though is how the light was literally floating in the middle of the air and the fact that it was such a perfect circle anyway I've only ever told this story to a few people but no one really knows what to say other than commenting

on how odd the story is has anyone else exper experienced a big glowing ball of light in their hotel room before if so please let me know and if you have any idea about what this could have been then I would love to hear from you 4 years ago I trained a new worker who was honestly a nice guy at the time early 30s seemingly healthy very much into yoga and had a beautiful girlfriend Etc he seemed very balanced and healthy to be honest for the sake of this narrative I'll name him coworker a so

we had another longtime coworker who was sort of Mr popular with managers but honestly super annoying a really large personality people mutually could only take him in small doses he was essentially the embodiment of a Tik Tok frat boy who would randomly dance on the job and freestyle and extremely annoying but anyway I'll call him coworker be now before I explain I should include that this workplace sucks it barely holds a single star on indeed it's a large Factory with no windows toxic management long hours and it was very hard on most people's mental health

anyway roughly a year into cooworker A's stay things started changing he and I were mutually friendly to one another we would have long civilized discussions about interesting things but something was really out of place when he mentioned that his new beliefs about the world being flat and a hologram Moon Theory or something it was really unlike the old version of him who was super rational but I sort of shrugged it off and said it's probably just a phase or he's trolling or something fast forward a few weeks and coworker a has seemingly took a lot

of interest in coworker B and sort of developed some of his mannerisms but in a more endearing way I guess kind of copying his silly dances and laughing it seemed harmless at the time but as months go passed he continued to dance more and more to the point that he had to be asked to stop by supervisors he would even be moving around at the morning meetings using all the same mannerisms and phrases as coworker B this really started to creep out coworker be a bit to the point that he actually switched shifts and we

theorized that maybe he was on drugs but coworker a was very vocal against all substance use including alcohol weed he was also a vegan so I don't know that just didn't fit where things changed for the worst though is when coworker B ends up getting with a new hire at work she ends up becoming his girlfriend and they move in together this is when coworker a shows up to work using coworker B's name he been signing himself in on the log book as him referring to himself as B all morning then later that day a

stands up on a work people screaming I'm in love with cooworker be's Girlfriend by name with his arm spread out in a cross- like Jesus formation face to the ceiling and the whole place just went silent and after he ended up standing in a corner with a broom sweeping nothing for the next several hours he wouldn't turn around from the corner either not even when tapped on the shoulder or called by name the only time that I saw him away from that corner was when it was time to go home he was the last one

out and unfortunately my job being QC I'm always among the last ones out as well despite both of us being the last in the building I did my best to act normal when passing him in the hallway I glanced at him he was looking directly at me head tilted down making a sort of pseudo snarling dog face eyebrows and a v tongue and teeth out the next day though our boss decided coworker a needed to go to the hospital so we actually met made an appointment and got him in with an Uber he was put

on leave for a week as well the security guards who I was friends with told me that a were showing up in the middle of the night trying to sign in for work at the card reader apparently sometimes at 2:00 or 3: in the morning anyway surprisingly a week later coworker a comes back and seems somewhat normal almost like he has no recollection of anything that he did he even wrote an entire album on his phone apparently in that time which surprisingly was better than I thought that it would be but I noticed that it

was all like Love lyrics sort of like country love songs as things seemed to normalize with coworker a he stated that he really wanted to hang out with me go for a hike and throw axes and trees Etc I sort of didn't agree or disagree and told him that I'd get back to him on that as I secretly was a little on edge he asked me later that day if I was still down and I said unfortunately I had other obligations he said well I guess I can't throw an axe at your face then and

I sort of laughed not really knowing how to react to that at all I told the manager about that though and he kind of just scratched his head uncomfortably and shugged his shoulders anyway uh coworker a ends up finding cooworker B's address due to a work get together where everyone was invited and someone leaked it to coworker a they eventually find rocks and bricks in weird formations on their doorstep like shrines almost and we all collectively knew that it was definitely a things got really weird though when they actually found a looking through their windows

at night he was also scratching the windows with his nails calling out be's name repeatedly Whispering be I need to tell you something this is when our manager finally decided to take action and agreed to fire a and 4 years later cooworker a still stalks coworker B's now ex-girlfriend who had to get a restraining order against him he annually makes new Facebook accounts and adds all 200 plus workers who used to work there as the place got shut down he uses a new name each time with a different selfie he sends a message to each

one of us as well saying hey you it's a be from work so I guess my question is what would this Behavior be called and how did such a normal likable level-headed person turn into this is there a term for this Behavior what would your diagnosis be and how do I keep myself and other people safe one of my friends had the balls to actually ask him in a reply if he recalls anything which apparently he doesn't but he sure remembers be's ex-girlfriend and says some extremely concerning things about how she's the one and the

only one I'm the bigger one and she's the smaller one he was put on this Earth essentially to save her apparently he also seemingly has no support at all from family or anything and is working a new job and living alone unattended I feel like this is sort of a risk yeah anyway I'm interested in some of your feedback about what he might be dealing with and again what do I do about this my boyfriend's uncle lives 2 to 3 hours from us so we barely see each other but maybe once or twice a year

I guess we do but he's just giving off some weird Vibes I guess not necessarily super creepy at first but definitely weird I like I sort of noticed him checking me out sneakily but I've been the victim of other things a few times in my life and I brush it off as me being overly cautious or sensitive the way that he talks and his accent are quite unique and you recall it pretty easily even without knowing it better I know that he was addicted to alcohol in the past but claims that he's sober now anyway

this happened twice last year and the year before mind you I have social anxiety so unknown callers are a huge issue for me the year before first it was a rather quick event but an no number called and a mail voice very similar to his asked if I'm fine and what I'm doing right now I was immediately stressed out and kept stuttering until he said that he had to hang up though it was super weird I brushed it off and forgot about it after a few days but last year the phone rang around nighttime maybe

9 to 10: p.m. very unusual only a few family members call us in general and never that late since it was an unknown number and my mom calls with an unknown number I picked up thinking that it was probably her not even remembering the creepy call that I got a year before but there was a male voice speaking with the same accent rather unusual where I live and sounded very similar to him but with slurred speech as if he was drunk I panicked and didn't ask for his name which I regretted later but once again

he called me by my name asking how I've been and saying that he missed me at this point my anxiety is through the roof and I'm actually almost in tears I now remember the last call but I'm not able to ask any questions that would confirm his identity because I'm just Frozen at this point but he was breathing heavily and kept talking which was hard to understand he then asked me if I was bored and if I'm alone right now as he would love to visit me I immediately said no my boyfriend is here and

he answered what a Pity only to hang up again he didn't call me again but this all still lives in my head I'm not going to lie I avoided him when he visited and tried to talk to my in-laws but they think that I simply confused him for some random weirdo but I'm absolutely sure that it was his voice his accent also I heard my boyfriend's aunt about it on WhatsApp asking if he called at Night by accident and I tried to approach her slowly before opening up about the story and she just blocked me

without even saying a word and everyone in the family thinks that that's just normal somehow they're like yeah she's weird don't worry about it she's always been a bit weird but I mean like what the heck right I didn't do anything I think her reaction though clearly was proof that I was right I'm still creeped out today the way that he talked to me on the phone like that Breathing heavily and and it honestly sounded like creepy guys in movies who call a women and play with themselves or something it was just disgusting and really

triggering and everybody behaving as if a complete nut job like this is normal honestly really sucks I grew up in a very small town of about a, people there really wasn't much to do so my friends and I spent a lot of time walking in the spring and summer months the town was small but Route 2 runs right through it and it's a highway that is the northernmost East West major US Highway spaning 2571 miles it was and is a quiet town but you definitely see some out of-state cars passing through and when I was

about 13 or 14 years old I was walking along route to to go to my best friend's house there was a wide spot off to the side of the road where I was and a man on a blue motorcycle with a matching helmet pulled into it I could only see his eyes through the helmet but he seemed kind and had a nice non-threatening sounding voice he seemed young if I had to guess I would say that he was probably in his 20s or early 30s at the latest I remember our conversation very well even though

I haven't given it much thought over the years I remember him being very flattered and sort of naive I guess but when he pulled in he asked me where the nearest bridge was and I told him that there was one about 7 Mi North in the next town over or about 20 mi back from the direction that he came from he thanks me and proceeded to tell me how pretty I was and asked to take me to lunch I thanked him for the compliment and told him that I was going to a friend's house but

this went on for quite a long time I would say every bit of 5 minutes I would guess but he kept telling me how great of a time that we would have and that he didn't know his way around and could use my help picking a place to eat I was trying to be nice but kept reminding him that I was on my way to her friends and also saying things like he only had one helmet anyway and he said that I could wear his for a short distance and that he would bring me right

back into town after we ate and that it wouldn't be long at all he only gave up when I pointed out my friend's bright blue house that was about maybe a block away and that she and her family were expecting me any minute this was kind of truthful but a small lie too she knew that I was coming that day but I always told my friend that I would walk down after I woke up the next day when we had plans and I never gave her a call to tell her when that would be I

always slept in late during the summer too so she wouldn't have expected me my friend's mom was always smoking on the porch though but her back was facing my Direction so so she didn't see the interaction but I could see her she would have absolutely been there fighting off this man in a heartbeat if he had actually tried forcing me onto his bike all I would have had to have done was yell for her and she would have been there I thought that I was invincible at the time and so grown up I thought that

I was tough and that nobody would ever harm me like I said I remember being very flattered which is really stupid of me I know but I remember thinking how fun it sounded and that would get to ride on a motorcycle for the first time I actually considered getting on the stranger bike at one point because I thought that I could take on anything and that it sounded sort of exciting the only reason that I didn't go was because I knew how angry my parents would be if they found out I now know that my

parents wouldn't have been angry at all to be honest but relieved if I had actually gone and made it back it's funny how you process things at a young age but regardless I'm just really happy that I didn't want to make them mad it could have actually saved my life I know that looking back there was no way that he didn't think that I was a kid I was still in my awkward stage and looked very much like my age at that time but what freaks me out looking back is that he asked me to

go to the nearest bridge and wanted me to go with him in that direction and that he was just so persistent he could have been out of state in seven minutes too and nobody would have even realized that I was gone until much later that day I uh 30-year-old female live with my wife and our sweet orange tabby cat but we own a home in an old neighborhood in a college town the neighborhood is mostly families and older people right around 2: in the morning Monday morning my wife and I are both woken up by

our cat immediately after we hear him we distinctly hear someone rattling our door to make the sound they would have had to have been holding the handle and trying to open it but we rushed to the living room and my wife wielding her aluminum bat smacks our leather recliner and screams I have a bat our CIS crouched on the ground and growling his hackles raised I got 911 on the line and we all got into our bedroom with a lock while we wait for the police they came by and they didn't see anything that night

though my wife didn't get any more sleep and I only got a little myself after our cat curled up next to me we both called out to our jobs at the University on Monday and wound up getting locked bars for the front and back doors and replaced the back door lock with one that requires a key on both sides this thankfully went as well as it could have but was just just so out of the blue and upsetting for us I mean it was just something that we never expected living where we live more than

anything though it's just a good reminder to stay vigilant and invest in that security measure when you can we never imagined someone would try to break in during the dead of night when there are two cars in the driveway after all but some people out there they just don't care if somebody's at home or not so I'm in my early 30s now and much of this happened between the ages of 10 and 14 all of it started shortly after my family and I moved into a new home in town the house that we moved into

was fairly new construction at the time and I don't believe that there was anything interesting about the land that it was built on within a couple of months of moving in I had my first experience with sleep paralysis I gone to bed late at night roughly 5 minutes after shutting the lights off and closing my eyes I felt a a cold presence touching my chest I opened my eyes and saw nothing naturally I was creeped out and ran into my parents' room for Comfort my mom convinced me that it was just a bad dream and

that I should go back to bed which I did but immediately after closing my eyes again I felt the same thing except at this time moving through the center of my chest with force that feeling that expanded throughout my torso upon opening my eyes I realized that I could not move or speak at this point I could feel something watching me directly to the right of my bed I laid there for maybe 5 to 10 minutes trying to scream before regaining the ability to move and as soon as I could I jumped up and I

ran back into my parents' room needless to say I'm slept next to them that night lucky for me though I've only had to experience sleep paralysis a couple of times in my life but there were several other odd encounters to follow though you see a couple of months after that at night is when I had my next experience my grandmother was watching my brother and me that evening and she was on the first floor with my brother I was on the second floor and from my window looking down into my backyard the house borders a

small forest and River I saw a bright white figure walking from one end to the other it looked like a a fully grown man but glowing and I never really saw a face I was obviously a bit freaked out by the side of this so I duck to ensure that whatever it was didn't see me I briefly peaked out of the window a couple of seconds after and whatever it was it was gone I ran downstairs though immediately to find both my grandmother and my brother brother in the same room no one that I know

of was in the backyard at the time so it definitely wasn't somebody in the house those experiences though peaked my interest in the Paranormal and roughly a few months after that I convinced my mom to buy me a WIA board I then convinced our babysitter who was a few years older than me to use it with my brother while my parents were out of the house we turned off all the lights and lit a couple of candles and we tried to talk to the Dead at the time I was definitely skeptical and I assumed that

it was our babysitter who was the one manipulating the plet but it was moving and it was definitely responding to our questions we eventually decided that we were done with it and put the board away again I just kind of laugh this one off but I don't know thinking back on it the frequency of these encounters went way up after this experience the fact is is that after that I never really felt alone in this house especially when I was the only one home fast forward to middle school though I was usually the first one

home and would remain home alone for a couple of hours every day I generally spent most of my time in the basement where the TV video game console and computer were during this time I would regularly hear kitchen cabinets slamming shut but they weren't open to begin with mind you and dining room chairs being dragged across the floor and I always felt as if there was something watching like I said I did at times wonder if some of this was just in my head only for the thoughts to be validated by both my brother and

a few friends that would come over at various intervals but there was another Standalone event around the same time where my brother and I were playing games in his room we were both sitting on his bed and to my right was the door to the hallway which was wide open the lights were off in the bedroom and there was some tertiary lighting sort of coming from the hallway out of my peripheral view was again a fully formed person a white figure that appeared to be walking past the doorway out in the hallway and as I

turned my head right my brother to my left sneezed and blood came pouring out of his nose again I saw just enough to be creeped out but not enough to fully validate exactly what I saw and the whole blood coming out of the nose thing was really random and weird there were a few other events to follow though more or less the same as some of the stuff described above but all of this came to a head one night and this is also where I saw some of the most Vivid stuff to date I was

13 at the time and my best friend was sleeping over it was Friday night and we were the only ones in the house at that point we were on the second fall playing video games when all of a sudden we heard the cabinet doors slamming and the chairs moving I was honestly used to it by now but my friend got a bit freaked out and asked what it was I'm paraphrasing but I said something to the effect of it's those ghosts again those ghosts and this is when things got weird for us shortly after that

my TV just turned off the room became very cold all of a sudden and it was almost like the air became heavy I don't know it's hard to describe but it took much more energy to get up and move around we booked it from my room and went downstairs to the first floor we calmed down afterwards and figured that we had just overreacted to what was probably just an odd coincidence we then decided to go back upstairs to play video games as we're walking up it became very cold again and we began to feel weighed

down again we ignored it this time as again we just thought that it was all in our heads we got to my room though and turned the TV on along with the video video games and after about a minute or two the same thing happened with the TV turned off only this time I saw what looked like what I can only describe as a floating orb or two out of the corner of my eye and at that we again ran downstairs like an idiot I tried going upstairs a third time same cold and heaviness as

before this time as I approached the door of the stairs I looked into my parents room from the hallway the door was open and the lights were off and to the right of their bed I saw an all white figure standing with no torso or head I again booked it downstairs and at this point we went into full-on paranoia mode I tried calling my parents but there was no answer we were stuck at home feeling terrorized and not sure when the adults were coming back at some point we actually started like chanting or praying out

of desperation which I actually think made things worse because the air on the first floor became extremely heavy and we felt the cold rush rush down the stairs towards us I also started to see the same small orbs fly into the room from upstairs only this time directly in my field of view this brought my anxiety to the next level and I finally yelled out and apologized for saying what I had said earlier and in a very handed way I pleaded with whatever this thing was to leave me alone pointing out that we both live

here and that I wouldn't mess with them going forward if they just didn't mess with me as I was apologizing I saw two or three more of those small orb things and one much larger a dark one or purple or black sort of all come into the room and just hang there for more than a few seconds what's odd though is after my apology the orbs just sort of dis ipated and the air sort of cleared up a bit my friend and I just sort of stood there looking at each other absolutely dumbfounded of what

we had just seen coincidentally though my mom came home maybe 20 minutes after the whole thing ended and everything just went back to normal as if nothing had happened weirdly enough too I I haven't seen anything since then the noises that we regularly heard on the first floor continued although they didn't bother me much at that point I do think my friend may have been a bit traumatized from that experience though because he claimed that he felt as if he was being watched for a good while after that night too in any case I'd be

interested to hear some of your thoughts some of this stuff was damn right terrifying in the moment and I would love to understand what the heck I was dealing with I'll do my best to explain what I saw but it's difficult to paint an exact picture I was driving across the country with my mom we just entered California from Arizona a little bit before 11:00 p.m. it was a rural area and there were other cars around but definitely wouldn't call it traffic I'm driving and a bit off-road on the right side ground level wish I

see something sort of glowing it's a fluorescent neon dark blue very bright but it didn't light up anything around it it wasn't just glowing though it was sort of shaped like some kind of energy cell looking thing out of a futuristic movie or video game probably 5T tall and 2 ft wide with rib sides I then realized that this thing was moving and moving very weirdly it was sort of moving like it was glued to the ground and tracing the slightly hilly terrain like it was on top of some kind of off-road vehicle that was

sort of magnetically held down to the terrain that it was driving on after a few seconds it got up a little and disappears into the ground and we see these two small spotlights pointing in the air appear where it disappeared they were moving very quickly though like those ones you see when there's some kind of Arena event in your city but the light didn't reach super far these spotlights were encased by some kind of I don't know like light Dome and couldn't shine past it the light was just stopped in its tracks instead of fading

out into the sky and in the dome it was lit up it looked like fog inside of it but not exactly fog but I could still see those two spotlights shining around in it sporadically because they were shining brighter than the rest of the Dome keep in mind I could not see anything else as it was really dark but I couldn't see the ground or surroundings too I drove past it speaking with my mom just trying to figure out what the heck that was that we just saw all of it looked extremely unnatural but literally

5 Seconds of driving later my mom screams what the heck is that I never actually ended up seeing what she was talking about but she described basically what the internet says a black stickman on the left side of the road now it was the opposite side of the road that we saw the neonlight Dome thing and about 5 Seconds of doing 65 mph of distance from the Dome she said that they were about 12 ft tall built like stick figures or on stilts and she couldn't discern ahead I saw another story that described how they

walked in the same way my mom did sort of lping or had to kind of Bounce waddle in their steps at first there was only one walking and then another appeared close to it and they were going towards each other apparently I punched the gas though and I just got out of there because I mean to heck with that right I didn't think quick enough to take a video of the light Dome blue thing but I'm sort of glad that I didn't because for some reason I feel like that wouldn't have gotten off easy for

that I'm really not sure why I can't shake the theory that this blue light has to do with the government or something going after these things but I don't know I'll also mention we then saw flashing things in the sky pretty far away moving too close to each other to be aircraft but I've written that off as probably just border patrol drones or something as they were just too far away to make out as for the rest of it I really don't know what to make of it but as I said it all appeared completely

unnatural so me and my boyfriend we like going out dancing on the weekend which always ends up with us stumbling in to our favorite pizza place before joining the taxi queue we've done this most weekends for over a year now so we've become somewhat friendly with the guys who own the pizzeria they know us by name and always make a big fuss over us and offer us discounts every time too but here's where it gets a little freaky you see last night a Sunday night at 11:00 p.m. my boyfriend and I were in bed because

we both had work this morning my phone started ringing which was weird for that time of night and I saw it as an unknown number so I just ignored it but the next thing that we know there's someone knocking on the front door all the lights in the house were off so we were clearly in bed and not in I had another call from the same number and then the person knocking started hammering on the door and flicking the letter box even though I was a bit shaken and warned not to if I had been

alone in the house I never would have answered so he goes to downstairs to enter the door and lo and behold it's one of the pizza guys from the pizzeria holding two freshly cooked pizzas that we didn't order he said not to tell the other guys at the shop apparently but there were a gift from him to us his favorite customers my boyfriend took them from him and thanked him but we couldn't get back to sleep for hours we just felt really odd about the whole thing we have ordered from them once for a take

away I think so that's clearly how we got our address and my phone number but it's still very weird right something really weird happened today I got home and found that there were deep scratches on my bedroom TV and before I left this morning it was fine but that's not the weirdest thing the night before my girlfriend and I were home and we ate pizza and we're 100% sure that there were three pieces left in her box that she couldn't eat in the morning she got up and left before me and when I woke up

I looked to see if she had finished them and found that she still had three pieces however when I came home this afternoon there were only two pieces in the box and she confirmed to me that she had not eaten and that there were definitely three pieces a similar food incident happened to me last week when I returned from holiday just before we left I left half a sausage in a box of fries in the fridge and when I came back they were gone I thought that I must have thrown them away before or something

or my aunt had dropped by and picked them up today my aunt confirmed that she hasn't been in town for over a month now and hasn't even been by I also noticed a little later that the microwave settings had been changed too I have other stories of missing items and lights being left on and things like that but I always explained it away as me just losing it or something and now I I just don't know what to think I don't know what to do either the only people who have a house key are my

aunt and my uncle and my dad my uncle has absolutely no reason to come home especially while I'm gone my dad is on vacation and like I said earlier my aunt is out of town but just the other day something else happened that now I'm 100% sure that someone has access to my apartment I saw a hole in the wall that was absolutely new and also someone had opened again a completely new box of sweets also there's another missing sweets like one chocolate and two bars of Kit Kats in any case I'm going to change

the locks tomorrow and we'll sleep with a big knife by my side tonight too while the front door is blocked I lived in my childhood home from when I was a baby until 13 my family is very religious and as a child I was taught that when you die you either go to heaven or hell and that's it I was never told about anything Supernatural so in a lot of these moments I had no idea what I was experiencing it wasn't until I was older that I guess I understood also because I was so young

for some of these well I didn't understand in the moment I only remember some details but the last story is probably the scariest and I honestly tear up sometimes when I talk about it so I want to do this chronologically but I honestly can't remember which of these happened first so I'll kind of combine them because they involve the same well entity if that's what you want to call it in elementary school I I walked home from school every day since it was only about a 15-minute walk the house next daughter was was abandoned for

quite a few years after the last neighbors moved out and I walked past it every day pretty frequently I would see this girl in the top floor window and she looked to be around the same age as me maybe a little bit older curly dirty blonde hair pink bow in her hair wearing a pink and white frilly dress I never really thought much about her and just went home but there was one time though that made me really confused I was with my sister in her room playing with Barbies she had a shuted window in

her room that faced the backyard we were playing and I'm really not sure why but I just had the strangest feeling that I needed to open the window so I did and the girl was in our backyard standing in front of the slide I wasn't scared and was just sort of staring at her she continued to stand there and I'm not sure how long we were looking at each other but she eventually began to just fade away the best way that I can describe it is like when you stare at a light bulb and you

look away for a moment and you can still sort of see the outline it was kind of like that until she was just gone it sounds stupid now I know because if I saw that now I would freak out obviously but after she was gone I just kept playing with my sister like nothing had happened I would see this this girl pretty often too but she never scared me this one is short but it was the middle of the night and I was asleep I was maybe 5 or six I guess when I was suddenly

woken up to a hard punch to the stomach after recovering and calming down a bit I went to my parents room and they told me that it was nerves so I just believed them but I absolutely hated my parents' room the feeling and the energy in there was so heavy and dark the feeling of Panic would wash over me every time that I was in there on multiple occasions I would see things in there when walking to and from my room as well the scariest entity I ever saw though was standing to the right of

their bed it had skin that just looked like tar or something and it was taller than the ceiling so it had to bend to fit into the room I don't remember that it had a face or anything I eventually stopped looking in their room entirely because of this I hated when my parents would ask me to grab something for them in that room too and I would Sprint out every time one time though I had walked home from school and it was really hot that day so when I got home I threw my hair up

into a ponytail to cool off a bit I walked into my room and I immediately felt fingers grip my ponytail and start pulling me back to my parents' room context too all of our bedrooms were in the same hallway and mine was directly across from my parents room my dad and I roughhoused a lot and my parents knew that I was terrified of their room so I honestly thought that it was him it didn't hurt and like I said I just thought it was my dad messing around with me he's a big guy so I

went to Elbow him in the stomach but I hit nothing confused I quickly whipped around and saw no feet behind me just as the Panic started to set in too whatever it was it dropped me right in front of my parents' door door and I whipped my head around to see what it was but there was nothing I sat in shock for a few moments before the tears started to fall I eventually got up and found my dad talking to my grandma in the living room and I just didn't know what to say or do

the next one though happened about a week before we moved out it was only me in my grandma home my mom took my sister to practice and my dad was out grabbing dinner I I was in the living room doing my homework I think on the couch my grandma was watching TV in her room which was to the left of me the kitchen dining room in the hallway with all of our bedrooms was to the right of me the hallway is out of sight from the living room since it goes behind the dining room I

was focused on my homework when I started to hear footsteps they were going up and down the hallway and into the bedrooms it seemed I thought that it was my sister wearing her Disney princess costume heels at first the footsteps kept going for a while and then I realized that my sister wasn't actually home it was just me and my grandma and she was on the opposite side of the house my cat was also by my feet and my heart sank when I realized what it was but I just decided to ignore it and not

give it any attention it eventually stopped so I felt more relaxed but after a few minutes of quiet I heard the loudest slam that I had ever heard coming from a few feet away in the dining room it sounded like someone picked up a boulder and just slammed it on the hard wood I was looking on the ground for what might have fallen when I heard it speak it sounded like multiple voices hissing and groaning my name all at once it was honestly the most terrifying thing that I've ever experienced and I currently have full

body chills just remembering what it's sounded like I just sat there Frozen in Silence with tears rolling down my face I was too terrified to move or make a sound and I finally managed to squeak out a little grandma and nothing happened so I started to sob calling for her she eventually arrived but after that it just went away or whatever we actually moved out later that week and the first night at the new house I had a dream I was standing in the street outside inside the old house at night it was quiet and

all the lights were off when all of a sudden all of the windows opened and it was so bright inside it looked like a lighthouse in fact it sounded like a party was happening multiple conversations going on and you can see shapes of people moving around the house sort of manipulating the light and just as quickly as it started it stopped the windows they all slammed shut everything was quiet and dark again and then I woke up now I haven't experienced anything close to this since moving but a few years ago the current owners of

the house invited my family over for a Super Bowl party and we continued to know them we knew the people living there I decided not to go but my sister did as she talked to the owners and asked them if they had had any experiences of anything weird since moving in they were shocked that she asked and apparently they were seeing shadow people in and around the house looking in the windows which obviously was not very reassuring for me anyway I hope you enjoyed hearing about all this sorry it's a bit all over the place

it's hard to summarize 13 years of stuff like this but these are some of the more scary things that I can recall if anything doesn't make sense and you want more clarification or have any questions then do let me know and I'll do my best to answer in the comments below this past weekend my parents had a an experience I didn't make much of it and neither did the rest of the family but I'm going to use general terms to protect some privacy this parent got up in the morning for work however they were washing

some dishes from the night before I woke up and was able to hear them washing the dishes and everything nobody else was in the home or awake besides my one of our pets my parent came into the room and asked for my sibling I mentioned that they were sleeping upstairs we have a single room upstairs somewhat like an attic but used as a bedroom with my other sibling at this point my parent told me to swear that my sibling was upstairs I explained that yes they were and I hadn't seen them come downstairs they then

said that she had seen my sibling run around the house and could feel the feet and items move as they ran they were so sure that they walked over to peek around the couch to scare them play hide and seek or whatever and we didn't discuss it more but more recently I have also seen the same sibling at home despite everyone being away this sibling is still in grade school so they wake up and get taken to school by one of my parents I was also getting ready to leave for work and as I was

heading out of the bathroom our cat ran and hid behind the bat he is still a Kitt so he's very playful The Hiding is not suspicious to me as he's been running around and playing by himself throughout the morning anyway but I was leaving the bathroom and walked heading towards the bed to play with the Cat my bedroom door is in front of the door that leads to the dining room or common area when out of the corner of my eye I see this sibling sitting on the dining table eating breakfast with only hair covering

her face I've made out the clothes that they were wearing and as I went to play with the cat it occurred to me to tell this sibling to stop playing with the cat and hurry up or else they'll be late for school and as I walked out of my bedroom I remembered my parents had already left with them which means that I should have been the only one in the house I quickly went out there but when I did there was nobody there these experiences haven't felt malicious I guess the only common nominator between the

two times has occurred is that the cat seems to be playing with them which is really weird just like he does with my sibling that says to me that I'm not going crazy either because when I came out that little cat it was acting as if something was there I was reminded recently of this really scary incident involving in a manager at one of the old jobs that I had this happened about 5 years ago when I was 20 I believe he was around 42 or so give or take a few years plus or minus

but to paint you a picture here the manager in question who his name was Tim was a short sort of Viking esque guy red beard red hair bright blue eyes stocky build not muscular though Tim was also a a heavy smoker and un known racist as well well he dropped the nword at least four times a week for shock Factor during conversations he also used to refer to indigenous people as Indians he stopped once he found out my ethnicity and confronted him about it he was mostly bark with little bite I guess but still someone

I was cautious around nonetheless he also had a girlfriend who was also 20 at the time she was like an alternate reality version of me like me she was a bigger girl size 24 26 is piercings tattoos the works I looked like the replicant tall version of her I guess it was pretty surreal but he never outright told me that he had feelings for me but on several occasions he'd comment on how much I reminded him of his girlfriend and would ask if I was into women in three ways I was bisexual he didn't know

that though I gave vague answers every time that he asked me something of the sort but one day he made an off comment about bisexual women being greedy to which I reacted negatively and I guess that he must have put the pieces together from there anyway a couple of weeks went by of him asking me questions about my interests my hobbies what I do in my off time my favorite music Etc normally I just chalk this up to office banter but with the creepy undertones I had a hard time engaging him about my personal life

at this time I had also started seeing my now partner of 5 years when my boss asked asked again what I was doing after work I informed him that I was going to see my boyfriend this sent him into a question Tail Spin mind you he asked how we met how long we'd been dating where he lived even it was a bit unnerving to be honest but once again I kept the answers vague this time though I went on and on about how much I loved my partner and how excited I was to have such

an amazing partner in my life I wanted to be crystal clear that I was not not interested in my boss that same evening as we were closing he told me about his favorite music he specifically mentioned a band called Immortal Technique and a song of theirs called Dance with the Devil I Shrugged as I really wasn't familiar with the song so he put it on the store speakers while he swept and I closed the cash register for those of you who aren't familiar with that song it's a very graphic and disturbing song that has a

rather intense twist at the end if you like the song well that's your taste whatever but personally as a woman I find it difficult listening to graphic depictions of extreme violence like that against women period but before continuing I'd suggest that you read some of the lyrics if you can stomach them specifically the last half as it pertains to this story but anyway Tim turns up the music to an almost deafening level while I count out the cash and get our computers closed up as he's sweeping he's active ly and loudly wrapping along word for

word dropping end bombs of course all the way through he hadn't been looking at me until the latter half of the song where the lyrics began depicting a woman being sexually assaulted and killed by a group of men it was visceral violent and terrifying but Tim turns to me at this point of the song and stares into my eyes while pointing and dancing to the lyrics while still rapping along he was making violent gestures while doing this in my direction a motion of a head stomping gesture with his hands thrusting it was horrifying but I

quickly closed the cash register quicker than I ever had in my life I felt like I was in danger at that point to be honest so I grabbed my bag and jacket as the song finished he turned it off and goes isn't that something it's poetry the storytelling is just amazing isn't it I remember my whole body was really tense and I muted not my cup of tea and I just left now I know that I should have given him my notice right then and there but I was in a rough employment situation and couldn't

up and just leave like that after that though he actually stopped scheduling him and I together very often and about a month later I gave my notice after finding a better job fulltime he was Furious when I left of course the company actually ended up closing that location a few months later because Tim apparently lost it according to our common connection it was a friend of mine a worker of his but this friend of mine also told me that he up and moved to the other side of the country to be with his ex-wife which

was a bit of a yikes but what made me remember this story was that a few months ago I was running errands in the outskirts of my city I happened to stop by a random Taco Bell and guess who walks in with a very youngl looking woman on his arm it was Tim I was with my partner who also recognized him when they made eye contact my partner and I were already seated and eating by this point Tim looked at us though like a deer in the headlights and booked it out of there faster than

a kite on the Wind before he left though I noticed that he had shaved his head and had gotten some suspicious looking tattoos on his arms and when he turned around there was also a distinct white power symbol patch on his jacket and his girlfriend's jacket too so Not only was is this guy a creep but also a predator and also now a white supremacist apparently I don't go to that area anymore unless I'm accompanied by my partner at all times Tim is also very much a part of my past and I have no desire

to run into him ever again